Sublime

From Venezuela, Humboldt and Bonpland sailed for Cuba, arriving at Havana and the comforts of civilization in November of 1800. Humboldt wandered about Havana’s botanical garden, made more maps (the first accurate maps of Cuba), and observed with sinking heart the institution of slavery (“no doubt the greatest of all evils that afflict humanity”).

Adam Smith, the great inventor of modern economic thought, living in Scotland in the eighteenth century, published his magnum opus, The Wealth of Nations, in 1776. As a great humanist, he observed the consequences of globalization with a globalist perspective rather than British partiality. (In his own work on moral sympathy, Smith spoke about the

Ulysse invente l’exploration gratuite dont les Européens auront le monopole. Plus tard, l’esprit d’aventure sera porté dans les confins par Vasco de Gama, Livingstone, Lévi-Strauss, Jean Rouch, Cousteau, Hermann Buhl, Charcot et Magellan. Inspiré par Ulysse, l’homme européen a fouillé le monde. Mieux ! C’est lui qui a manifesté un intérêt pour ce q

Wie kommt es dazu, dass manche Dinge aus sich selbst heraus eine eigene Aktivität

In der Renaissance betrachteten Menschen die Natur als Instrument, weil sie feiner gearbeitet schien als die zierlichste Taschenuhr. In unserer Schöpferischen Ökologie ist das Wertvollste der Natur ihre Freiheit: die unendliche Potenz der Kreativität.

An important aim of this book is to show that many well-known phenomena and empirical regularities of cities are intrinsically interconnected and can be made sense of from a common body of theory.

it was always the trees that were transferring life-giving moisture into land-locked interiors.