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.