Classification Quote by Carl Linnaeus

Botany is based on fixed genera.

— Carl Linnaeus

We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.

— Carl Linnaeus

We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under…

— Theophrastus

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I need to be precise about a plant, I use its Latin name, even if my nongardening friends sometimes look at me a…

— Allen Lacy

“In the classic successional course, each suite of plants replaces its predecessor, until the arrival of the final, “climax” ecosystem, usually tall forest.”

— Charles C. Mann

A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground.

— George Herbert

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.

— Guru Nanak

“Species that evolved from a common ancestor are bunched together under the heading ‘genus’ (plural genera).”

— Yuval Noah Harari

What is well planted will not be uprooted.

— Laozi

All the species recognized by Botanists came forth from the Almighty Creator's hand, and the number of these is now and always will be…

— Carl Linnaeus

Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper