1.He stayed away from the school sometimes, so he could be out in the countryside. His father Nils, a vicar and hobby gardener, so worried. How could he keep his young son in school so that he could study and become a priest? the teacher thought Carl should become a craftsman. It was science teacher who found the solution-Carl could study to become a doctor.
2.He was only 154cm tall, just over 5feet. But he cut an impressive figure when clad in his Sami costume, as he did when he proposed to Sara Lisa. Furthermore, he had beautiful eye.
3.He was the first European to successfully cultivate bananas. He managed this while living in Holland. He claimed that the forbidden fruit that Eve offered Adam in the Garden of Eden was a banana, not an apple.
4.He was deeply devout, and saw great ideas in small things. He believed that God had created everything in the natural world for a purpose, and it was the task of scientists to reveal God’s purpose.
5. He was the world’s first ecologist, long before the concept was discovered. He used terms such as “budget” and “economics of nature”. He described the significance of the circle of resources, and compost formation, and he described how all organisms had a place in the natural world.Everything was co-ordinated into one perfect machine.
6. His ideas inspired Charles Darwin when he was developing the theory of evolution. He had described the order and the hierachy of species in his books. then used the phrase “fight for survival in his book Politia Nature. Darwin took the idea further, and wrote about suitable organism in nature survive.
7.Linnaeus wrote text that were easy to understand, and he wrote often in Swedish, not only in Latin. This was the key to how his pionnering research achieved such a wide impact. August Strindberg wrote that”linnaeus was really a poet, who just happened to be a scientist.”
8.He speculations became bolder as the years went by. For example: he speculated that swallows spent the winter at the bottom of lakes. Maybe he was in a hurry to explain everything.
