We could say that Linnæus’ world began in the woods of Små­land and ended in a garden in Uppland. We might also say that the difference between a woods in Småland and a garden in Uppland expresses the trajectory of Linnæus’ life. Though he probably never uttered that famous epigram, “ Gud ska­pa­de, Linné ordnade ,” (God made it, Linnæus arranged it), he was com­pletely aware of what he had done to organize rationally what a pro­digal Creator had strewn about the earth. ^[1] Whatever one wishes to think of Linnæus as a person, even as a scholar, it is important to under­stand that the move from taxonomical chaos to useable clas­si­fication system was no small achievement. All of this, of course, keeps Linnæus firmly a “green” scholar. But the larger world he and his contemporaries lived in was far messier and indubitably less “green” than we like to think.