For many people, Carolus Linnaeus is characterized as Sweden's greatest symbol as a natural scientist. He was a taxonomist, botanist, zoologist, ecologist, he also worked in the field of medicine and natural history but his main passion was botany (Anderson 10). He became famous throughout the world and was called a leading naturalist because of the system he developed and used to name and classify plants, animals, minerals, and sometimes even humans. People don't truly understand this man if they only look at and consider his achievements in botany. When people consider Carl Linnaeus only as a world-famous botanist, they eliminate very important aspects of his life. Carl Linnaeus was a "jack of all trades" and here all these trades will be covered and focused (Koerner 14). Without accurately knowing all the results that Carl Linnaeus achieved throughout his life, one is truly missing from all the great research and information he conducted. His entire journey through life and his contribution to this wonderful world began when Carl was just four years old. He was having a picnic with his family and some family friends and his father picked a lot of wildflowers around Lake Möckeln in Sweden, where they were having the picnic. From that day when Nils, Carl's father, named each of the wildflowers he had gathered for his guests, Carl was determined to learn the names of every plant in and around his hometown (Anderson 9) . By the time the young and devoted Carl became a university student, he had already learned every single name of all the flowers in his home province of Småland, and he was still not satisfied. He continued his search to find and name even more…half of the paper…it was for Carl Linnaeus and his father, Nils, who paved the way for all his work. Carl Linnaeus was a great man who dedicated his life to helping science, but botany was his passion, so he was up to the challenge when he decided to reform the naming system used in his time. Don't underestimate all the great work he contributed in all aspects of science and life in general. Works Cited Anderson, Margaret Jean. Carlo Linnaeus: father of classification. Springfield: Enslow, 1997.Downs, Robert B. Landmarks in Science: From Hippocrates to Carson. Littleton: Libraries Unlimited, 1982. Koerner, Lisbet. Linnaeus: Nature and nation. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1999.Lidén, Magnus. “Linnaeus and the animals”. Uppsala University, 2010. Web. 30 October 2011. Linné, C von. "Medicinal plants and Linnaeus". Uppsala University, 2010. Web. 30 October. 2011.