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Top 20 Andrea Wulf Quotes (2024 Update)

Andrea Wulf Quote: “The effects of the human species’ intervention were already ‘incalculable’, Humboldt insisted, and could become catastrophic if they continued to disturb the world so ‘brutally’. Humboldt would see again and again how humankind unsettled the balance of nature.”

1. “The effects of the human species’ intervention were already ‘incalculable’, Humboldt insisted, and could become catastrophic if they continued to disturb the world so ‘brutally’. Humboldt would see again and again how humankind unsettled the balance of nature.”

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Andrea Wulf Quote: “Without a diversity of opinion, the discovery of truth is impossible,’ he.”

2. “Without a diversity of opinion, the discovery of truth is impossible,’ he.”

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Andrea Wulf Quote: “Die Menschheit sir nur ein kleiner Teil Aber die Natur selbst sei eine Republik der Freiheit.”

3. “Die Menschheit sir nur ein kleiner Teil Aber die Natur selbst sei eine Republik der Freiheit.”

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Andrea Wulf Quote: “Nature itself was a republic of freedom.”

4. “Nature itself was a republic of freedom.”

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Andrea Wulf Quote: “Nature is the domain of liberty,’ Humboldt said, because nature’s balance was created by diversity which might in turn be taken as a blueprint for political and moral truth. Everything, from the most unassuming moss or insect to elephants or towering oak trees, had its role, and together they made the whole. Humankind was just one small part. Nature itself was a republic of freedom.”

5. “Nature is the domain of liberty,’ Humboldt said, because nature’s balance was created by diversity which might in turn be taken as a blueprint for political and moral truth. Everything, from the most unassuming moss or insect to elephants or towering oak trees, had its role, and together they made the whole. Humankind was just one small part. Nature itself was a republic of freedom.”

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Andrea Wulf Quote: “We can never know how wide a circle of disturbance we produce in the harmonies of nature when we throw the smallest pebble in the ocean of organic life,’ Marsh wrote.”

6. “We can never know how wide a circle of disturbance we produce in the harmonies of nature when we throw the smallest pebble in the ocean of organic life,’ Marsh wrote.”

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Andrea Wulf Quote: “Humboldt ‘read’ plants as others did books – and to him they revealed a global force behind nature, the movements of civilizations as well as of landmass. No one had ever approached botany in this way.”

7. “Humboldt ‘read’ plants as others did books – and to him they revealed a global force behind nature, the movements of civilizations as well as of landmass. No one had ever approached botany in this way.”

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Andrea Wulf Quote: “Humboldt was the ‘greatest of the priesthood of nature’, Marsh said, because he had understood the world as an interplay between man and nature – a connection that would underpin Marsh’s own work because he was collecting material for a book that would explain how humankind was destroying the environment.”

8. “Humboldt was the ‘greatest of the priesthood of nature’, Marsh said, because he had understood the world as an interplay between man and nature – a connection that would underpin Marsh’s own work because he was collecting material for a book that would explain how humankind was destroying the environment.”

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Andrea Wulf Quote: “Im Gegensatz zu Christoph Kolumbus und Isaac Newton entdeckte Humboldt keinen Kontinent und kein neues physikalisches Gesetz. Humboldts Ruhm beruhte nicht auf einer bestimmten Tat oder Erfindung, sondern auf seiner Sicht der Welt.”

9. “Im Gegensatz zu Christoph Kolumbus und Isaac Newton entdeckte Humboldt keinen Kontinent und kein neues physikalisches Gesetz. Humboldts Ruhm beruhte nicht auf einer bestimmten Tat oder Erfindung, sondern auf seiner Sicht der Welt.”

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Andrea Wulf Quote: “Knowledge, Humboldt believed, had to be shared, exchanged and made available to everybody.”

10. “Knowledge, Humboldt believed, had to be shared, exchanged and made available to everybody.”

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Andrea Wulf Quote: “Nature must be experienced through feeling,’ Humboldt.”

11. “Nature must be experienced through feeling,’ Humboldt.”

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Andrea Wulf Quote: “Humboldt wrote that nature had to be experienced through feelings.”

12. “Humboldt wrote that nature had to be experienced through feelings.”

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Andrea Wulf Quote: “In the late eighteenth century scientists had begun to suggest that the earth must be older than the Bible, but they couldn’t agree on how the earth had formed.”

13. “In the late eighteenth century scientists had begun to suggest that the earth must be older than the Bible, but they couldn’t agree on how the earth had formed.”

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Andrea Wulf Quote: “Nature every where speaks to man in a voice,’ Humboldt said, that is ‘familiar to his soul’.”

14. “Nature every where speaks to man in a voice,’ Humboldt said, that is ‘familiar to his soul’.”

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Andrea Wulf Quote: “Unlike Christopher Columbus or Isaac Newton, Humboldt did not discover a continent or a new law of physics. Humboldt was not know for a single fact or a discovery but for his worldview. His vision of nature has passed into our consciousness as if by osmosis. It is almost as though his ideas have become so manisfest that the man behind them has disappeared.”

15. “Unlike Christopher Columbus or Isaac Newton, Humboldt did not discover a continent or a new law of physics. Humboldt was not know for a single fact or a discovery but for his worldview. His vision of nature has passed into our consciousness as if by osmosis. It is almost as though his ideas have become so manisfest that the man behind them has disappeared.”

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Andrea Wulf Quote: “Whenever he stood on a summit or a high ridge, he felt so moved by the scenery that his imagination carried him even higher. This imagination, he said, soothed the ‘deep wounds’ that pure ‘reason’ sometimes created.”

16. “Whenever he stood on a summit or a high ridge, he felt so moved by the scenery that his imagination carried him even higher. This imagination, he said, soothed the ‘deep wounds’ that pure ‘reason’ sometimes created.”

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Andrea Wulf Quote: “Humboldt wrote about the destruction of forests and of humankind’s long-term changes to the environment. When he listed the three ways in which the human species was affecting the climate, he named deforestation, ruthless irrigation and, perhaps most prophetically, the ‘great masses of steam and gas’ produced in the industrial centres. No one but Humboldt had looked at the relationship between humankind and nature like this before.”

17. “Humboldt wrote about the destruction of forests and of humankind’s long-term changes to the environment. When he listed the three ways in which the human species was affecting the climate, he named deforestation, ruthless irrigation and, perhaps most prophetically, the ‘great masses of steam and gas’ produced in the industrial centres. No one but Humboldt had looked at the relationship between humankind and nature like this before.”

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Andrea Wulf Quote: “He wanted to excite a ‘love of nature’. At a time when other scientists were searching for universal laws, Humboldt wrote that nature had to be experienced through feelings.”

18. “He wanted to excite a ‘love of nature’. At a time when other scientists were searching for universal laws, Humboldt wrote that nature had to be experienced through feelings.”

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Andrea Wulf Quote: “Humboldt later put it succinctly: ‘The wooded region acts in a threefold manner in diminishing the temperature; by cooling shade, by evaporation, and by radiation.”

19. “Humboldt later put it succinctly: ‘The wooded region acts in a threefold manner in diminishing the temperature; by cooling shade, by evaporation, and by radiation.”

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Andrea Wulf Quote: “When Humboldt later instigated a German translation of Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin wrote to a friend, ‘I must with unpardonable vanity boast to you.”

20. “When Humboldt later instigated a German translation of Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin wrote to a friend, ‘I must with unpardonable vanity boast to you.”

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