Alexander-von-humboldt Quote by Charles Darwin

But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy a delight…

— Charles Darwin

“ Humboldt's glorious descriptions are & will for ever be unparalleled: but even he with his dark blue skies & the rare union of…

— Charles Darwin

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

— Andrea Wulf

Alexander von Humboldt’s wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Person’s stunning new…

— Daniel Walker Howe

“Since I was a little kid, I've had this profound connection and love for the deep, dark, unmolested woods. I've always had a longing…

— Phil Robertson

“Some days I like to wander to old and warn our places, forests ripped apart by man and streams that carry stagnant water where…

— Nikki Rowe

“Darwin, landing in Brazil in 1832, had a similar reaction, colored by his reading of his predecessor." Humboldt's glorious descriptions are & will for…

— Charles Darwin

“And the boat and the dock and the gravel on the shore, the trees sky-pointed or crouching, leaning out over the water, the complicated…

— Alice Munro

“We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-cost with…

— Henry David Thoreau

“We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Nature is so beautiful and so full of elegance that it is beyond words! But because man has focused its beauty to one place,…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Beauty is where it is perceived. When I see the sun shinning on the woods across the pond, I think this side the richer…

— Henry David Thoreau