Alexander von Humboldt and the Invention of Nature: How One of the Last True Polymaths Pioneered the Cosmos of Connections

Until quite recently, all human cultures have been built on the concept of unity with the natural world. In fact, interdependence is one of our oldest ideas, one that’s common to indigenous people in Australia, Africa, and North and South America. It’s been our default view for the overwhelming majority of human history. It’s only been in the last

believe that nature (including the human mind)

Henri Bortoft writes in his mind-bending and deeply insightful book about Goethe’s way of science, The Wholeness of Nature:

Gregory Bateson in Mind and Nature.