“I could not possibly have been placed in circumstances more highly favorable for study and exploration than those which I now enjoy. I am free from the distractions constantly arising in civilized life from social claims. Nature offers unceasingly the… — Alexander Humboldt Copy Share Image
“This aspect of animated nature, in which man is nothing, has something in it strange and sad....Here, in a fertile country, adorned with eternal… — Alexander Humboldt Copy Share Image
“I could not possibly have been placed in circumstances more highly favorable for study and exploration than those which I now enjoy. I am… — Alexander Humboldt Copy Share Image
“The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.” — Alexander Humboldt Copy Share Image
