Andrea Wulf
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jun
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You know, can we learn something from that?
And that's something that was very important for me in this book.
I think it's definitely themes that are important
in the kind of coming together of modernity.
If you look at Humboldt, his way of looking at nature as a living organism, so not as a mechanical system and not a machine that somehow kind of you put together, but as a living organism, that was a very
new idea and an idea that has shaped our understanding of nature.
I mean, to this day, but also because he then understands that, well, if it is a living organism, if it is this kind of web of life, then if you pull one threat in this web, you know, you might unravel the whole thing.
So he's the first to really talk about and warn about harmful human induced climate change, um,
which of course is, you know, we are living with the consequences of ignoring him.
And then you have Foster, who is, you know, he was Humboldt's mentor, actually.
So I came across George Foster through Humboldt.
And he...
he he's a quite extraordinary human being so i'm going to talk a little bit about him that his ideas make more sense i think right um one of the what i think his life is a really good example why you should also look at the life of someone and when you look at the ideas because he so he's born in 1754
in Gdansk, so in today's Poland, then part of Royal Prussia.
He became a traveler, and my book is called The Traveler for that reason.
He became a traveler at the age of 10 when he accompanied as a botanist his rather difficult and tempestuous father on a wild expedition through Russia.
Just before his 12th birthday, his father took young George to London, where the young boy became the family's breadwinner by translating popular and bestselling travel accounts.
He was a bit of a wunderkind, really, who picked up languages and scientific concepts kind of like this.
I mean, quite extraordinary.
So he spoke Russian, English, German, and French.
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