Among my reads the past few weeks were those two literary treasures:
Meditations,
by Marcus Aurelius.
and
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science,
by Andrew Wulf.
There are so many lines in both books that deserve attention, I took snapshots after snapshots of their pages. It would overload the system to put them all here, so here is a small selection pretty much at random. This should give you a taste, and I hope you will go for more.
Meditations is a collection of thoughts by Marcus Aurelius not originally destined to publication. At the core of Stoic philosophy, it has inspired readers and thinkers for centuries.
Humboldt launched a new vision of nature at the beginning of the 19th century. Based both on scientific methods and observation, he introduced the idea that everything in nature is related and interacts, hence what we do to nature has long-term and sometimes ‘catastrophic’ consequences. This led to today’s concept of ecosystems. Humboldt is, among other things, the father of biogeography and of our modern understanding of physical geography and meteorology. His search of understanding puts him on the bench of philosophers as well. A man and his achievements worth knowing about.
