"Alexander von Humboldt’s wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Person’s stunning new translation makes the wonders of this classic accessible to the English-language world of the present."

-- Daniel Walker Howe

#Art Quotes #Views Quotes #World Quotes

“You're 40 and he's 22. Do you have to marry him? Couldn't you just adopt him?”
“Email is the greatest thing.”
“You are not creating a new you; you are releasing a hidden you. The process is one of self discovery. The hidden you that wants to emerge is in perfect balance.”
“A pear tree is blooming, by a collapsed house, on an old battlefield.”
“Only you and I who love Jesus and have Him now before this life's death will be able to be among the special super-citizens of the Heavenly City, a special super-class of people!”
“Rather fast then surfette, rather starue then striue to exceede.”
“The argument culture urges us to approach the world - and the people in it - in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: The best way to discuss an idea is to set up a debate; the best way to cover news is to find spokespeople who express the most extreme, polarized views and present them as 'both sides'; the best way to settle disputes is litigation that pits one party against the other; the best way to begin an essay is to attack someone; and the best way to show you're really thinking is to criticize.”
“A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.”

Source : Ambeth R. Ocampo (2001). “Meaning and History: The Rizal Lectures”

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