Alexander von Humboldt Quotes

This aspect of animated nature, in which man is nothing, has something in it strange and sad....Here...

Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind

The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the pr...

I could not possibly have been placed in circumstances more highly favorable for study and explorati...

The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those have not viewed the world.

While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumptio...