I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves.
- Alexander von Humboldt, 1769-1859 German naturalist and explorer
Image source: Humboldt University
From a letter written by Humboldt in 1834
I have the crazy notion to depict in a single work the entire material universe, all that we know of the phenomena of heaven and earth, from the nebulae of stars to the geography of mosses and granite rocks--and in a vivid style that will stimulate and elicit feelings. Every great and important idea in my writing should here be registered side by side with facts. It should portray an epoch in the spiritual genesis of mankind--in knowledge of nature. But is is not to be taken as a physical description of the earth: it comprises heaven and earth, the whole of creation.
- Source: History of Geology, Emporia University
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