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This species of food [fruits and farinacea] is that which is most suited to man, as is proved by the series of quadrupeds, analogy, wild men, apes, the structure of the mouth, of the stomach, and of the hands.

— Carl Linnaeus

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The observer of nature see, with admiration, that "the whole world is full of the glory of God."

I admire the wisdom of the Creator, which manifests itself in so many various modes, and demonstrate it to others.

The Earth's Creation is the glory of God, as seen from the works of Nature by Man alone.

If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes.

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We say there are as many genera as there are similarly constituted fructifications of different natural species.

Fundamenta Botanica (1736)

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