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Human beings, having, above all creatures, received the power of reason... need to be aware where nature is unaware. Nature reaches its culmination in humans, but human consciousness has not its essence in itself or nature.

— Carl Linnaeus Carl Reinhold Bråkenhielm (2009)

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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.

Philosophia Botanica (1751)

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

Fundamenta Botanica (1736)

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