Andrea Wulf
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jun
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But I think, and that's the interesting thing about both of them, they don't ever just see nature and humans as separate things.
We're all part of one thing.
So
And Humboldt talks about how one breath of life is poured over plants, animals, rocks, humans, mountains, the whole planet.
It's one breath of life, he calls it, because we are all part of this one beautiful planet that is ours.
Just messed it up really badly.
I mean, I think it's always a combination.
I mean, Humboldt, for example, I mean, Humboldt comes from a Prussian aristocratic family, very, very different background to Foster, for example.
But he feels absolutely stifled by Prussian society and by his upbringing.
And I think one of the reasons is because he was...
I mean, most historians, me included, think that he was gay.
So, you know, he's again, he's a kind of outsider in a certain respect.
And he finds a certain freedom when he kind of travels and is, you know, away from German society.
And I think it's the same for Foster.
There's, you know, he is an outsider.
He's kind of this...
it is always in transit.
Humboldt is always in transit.
So there's a sense of movement of not being stuck with your, with, you know, in a place or in a, I mean, Humboldt himself calls, also calls himself as a kind of citizen of the world.
He lives, you know, for many, many years in Paris.
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