Andrea Wulf

The Invention of Nature

Notify me when the book’s added
To read this book, upload an EPUB or FB2 file to Bookmate. How do I upload a book?
  • Frida Romay Hidalgohas quoted4 years ago
    John Muir’s idea t
  • Frida Romay Hidalgohas quoted4 years ago
    clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness’.
  • Frida Romay Hidalgohas quoted4 years ago
    When Humboldt described the earth as ‘a natural whole animated and moved by inward forces’, he pre-dated Lovelock’s ideas by more than 150 years. Humboldt called his book describing this new concept Cosmos, having initially considered (but then discarded) ‘Gäa’ as a title.
  • Frida Romay Hidalgohas quoted4 years ago
    Several minerals carry his name – from Humboldtit to Humboldtin – and on the moon there is an area called ‘Mare Humboldtianum’.
  • Frida Romay Hidalgohas quoted4 years ago
    Almost 300 plants and more than 100 animals are named after him
  • Frida Romay Hidalgohas quoted4 years ago
    Every speech across the world emphasized that Humboldt had seen an ‘inner correlation’ between all aspects of nature. I
  • Frida Romay Hidalgohas quoted4 years ago
    Humboldt was the first to explain the forest’s ability to enrich the atmosphere with moisture and its cooling effect, as well as its importance for water retention and protection against soil erosion. He warned that humans were meddling with the climate and that this could have an unforeseeable impact on ‘future generations’
  • Frida Romay Hidalgohas quoted4 years ago
    . After he saw the devastating environmental effects of colonial plantations at Lake Valencia in Venezuela in 1800, Humboldt became the first scientist to talk about harmful human-induced climate change.
  • Frida Romay Hidalgohas quoted4 years ago
    hen nature is perceived as a web, its vulnerability also becomes obvious. Everything hangs together.
  • Frida Romay Hidalgohas quoted4 years ago
    Humboldt said, ‘no single fact can be considered in isolation.’ With this insight, he invented the web of life, the concept of nature as we know it today.
fb2epub
Drag & drop your files (not more than 5 at once)