Karl Linné was in the garden again He just wouldn’t stay out of it Karl get out of the garden Karl’s mother ordered him to stay inside and study She dreamed that someday he’d become a fine scholar lawyer or best of all minister of the big church in their parish of Stenbrohult in Sweden But Karl was bored by schoolwork He was always sneaking out to the garden 5
Even when Karl was a baby he loved plants He was born in the spring of 1707 and when he cried his parents gave him flowers to calm him As soon as he learned to walk Karl toddled outdoors to his father’s garden As he got older he pestered his father to tell him the name of every single plant And the bugs Karl watched them for hours Striped ones Fuzzy ones Bugs with huge eyes and lots of legs What were their names Karl get out of the garden His mother begged him to get back to his schoolbooks But Karl was too busy watching caterpillars crawl 7
