"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

#Art Quotes #Order Quotes #Class Quotes

“Speech is but the incorporation of thought.”
“Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?”
“Future generations, if there is a livable world for them, will look back at the epochal transition we are making to a life-sustaining society. And they may well call this the time of the Great Turning.”
“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”

Source : John Cotton Dana's remarks on a quotation suitable for inscription on a new building at Newark State College, Union, New Jersey (1912) as quoted in "The New York Times Book Review" (p. 55.), March 5, 1967.
“This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.”
“To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.”
“Without music you are all dead; with music you are alive. There is nothing music can't do.”
“Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.”

You may also like:

Aristotle
Philosopher
Carl Woese
Charles Darwin
Naturalist
Ernst Haeckel
Philosopher
Georges Cuvier
Naturalist
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Naturalist
Gregor Mendel
Scientist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Science writer
John Ray
Botanist