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Pteridologist Inspirational Quotes (55)

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It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
Carl Linnaeus
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Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.
Adelbert von Chamisso
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In pain a new time is born.
Adelbert von Chamisso
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Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
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To live by medicine is to live horribly.
Carl Linnaeus
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From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such a respectable account of its natural history as should give me a niche amongst the scientific explorers of the globe I inhabit, and hand my name down as a useful contributor of original matter.
Joseph Dalton Hooker
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There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.
Carl Linnaeus
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When I spoke, I was listened to and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
Adelbert von Chamisso
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Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
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All I ever aim to do is to put the Development hypothesis in the same coach as the creation one. It will only be a question of who is to ride outside & who in after all.
Joseph Dalton Hooker
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Hope roves in a future of fame and wealth.
Adelbert von Chamisso
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When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
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What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.
Adelbert von Chamisso
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One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
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After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.
Adelbert von Chamisso
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Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.
Carl Linnaeus
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A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
Carl Linnaeus
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The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created] the variety mostly that of circumstance the class and the order are the work of nature and art.
Carl Linnaeus
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In pain is a new time born.
Adelbert von Chamisso
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There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
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No one has been a greater botanist or zoologist. No one has written more books, more correctly, more methodically, from personal experience. No one has more completely changed a whole science and started a new epoch.
Carl Linnaeus
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In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
Carl Linnaeus
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Linnea.... A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space - from Linnaeus who resembles it.
Carl Linnaeus
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Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.
Carl Linnaeus
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