5:30pm program, 6:30pm reception & book signing

Perceiving nature as an interconnected global force, Humboldt (1769-1859) discovered similarities between climate zones across the world and predicted human-induced climate change. He turned scientific observation into poetic narrative, and his writings inspired naturalists and poets such as Darwin, Wordsworth and Goethe but also politicians such as Jefferson. Wulf also argues that it was Humboldt’s influence that led John Muir to his ideas of preservation and that shaped Thoreau’s Walden. Wulf traces Humboldt’s influences through the great minds he inspired in revolution, evolution, ecology, conservation, art and literature.

PLEASE NOTE: Talk takes place at the John Carter Brown Library, located at the corner of George and Brown Streets on the Brown Green.

Sponsored by Brian and Lyn Hayden.