An pilosopong si Jean-Jacques Rousseau nagtao saiya nin mensahe (sa Ingles): Tell him I know no greater man on earth. Si Johann Wolfgang von Goethe nagsurat: With the exception of Shakespeare and Spinoza, I know no one among the no longer living who has influenced me more strongly. An Suwekong awtor na si August Strindberg nagsurat: Linnaeus was in reality a poet who happened to become a naturalist. Si Linnaeus inaapod na  (Prinsipe kan mga Botaniko) asin The Pliny of the North. Pigkokonsidera man siya na saro sa mga kagmokna kan modernong ekolohiya.