The system I have created is merely a map, not the territory... - Carl Linnaeus

"The system I have created is merely a map, not the territory."

Carl Linnaeus

Naturalist Botanist Swedish 1707–1778

More from Carl Linnaeus

"If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost too."

"Nature does not proceed by leaps."

"God created, Linnaeus organized."

"The variation exists in nature and we can only catalog it."