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Pteridologist Inspirational Quotes (55)

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One must first seek to love plants and nature, and then to cultivate that happy peace of mind which is satisfied with little. He will be happier if he has no rigid and arbitrary ideals, for gardens are coquettish, particularly with the novice.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
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Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
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We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.
Carl Linnaeus
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On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.
Adelbert von Chamisso
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In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.
Adelbert von Chamisso
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Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?
Adelbert von Chamisso
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If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
Carl Linnaeus
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Forests, beyond offering us their plainly utilitarian wealth, have to perform vast physiological functions in the great economy of nature, by contributing predominantly in the empire of vegetation to the liberation of oxygen.
Ferdinand von Mueller
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Yesterday the twig was brown and bare To-day the glint of green is there Tomorrow will be leaflets spare I know no thing so wondrous fair, No miracle so strangely rare. I wonder what will next be there!
Liberty Hyde Bailey
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Is there any progress in horticulture? If not, it is dead, uninspiring. We cannot live in the past good as it is we must draw our inspiration from the future.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
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In the gametes of an individual hybrid the Anlagen for each individual parental character are found in all possible combinations but never in a single gamete the Anlagen for a pair of characters. Each combination occurs with approximately the same frequency.
Carl Correns
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I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.
Carl Linnaeus
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As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as one gazes at the shining colors of flowers, doth one become dumbstruck before the Kingdom of the Creator.
Carl Linnaeus
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Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
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There are as many species as the infinite being created diverse forms in the beginning, which, following the laws of generation, produced many others, but always similar to them: therefore there are as many species as we have different structures before us today.
Carl Linnaeus
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Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.
Carl Linnaeus
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There are some viviparous flies, which bring forth 2,000 young. These in a little time would fill the air, and like clouds intercept the rays of the sun, unless they were devoured by birds, spiders, and many other animals.
Carl Linnaeus
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Nature does not proceed by leaps.
Carl Linnaeus
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All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain and deception put an end to these usual artifices.
Adelbert von Chamisso
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A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
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Botany is based on fixed genera.
Carl Linnaeus
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A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
Adelbert von Chamisso
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Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest care. This is the first and last desideratum among botanists. Nature makes no jumps. [Natura non facit saltus] All taxa show relationships on all sides like the countries on a map of the world.
Carl Linnaeus
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On a feeling and sensitive mind a demolished forest impresses unmingled sadness, whereas its primeval grandeur must inspire anyone to immeasurable delight, who is susceptible to the beauties of nature.
Ferdinand von Mueller
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