Sublime

We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men. . . . In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.

Ses voyages en Alaska, il les a écrits lui-même. Son récit est minutieux, plein d’enthousiasme, il est parfait en son genre, alors les raconter par le menu serait vain, je ne serais pas à la hauteur de son propre récit. Je me contenterai de quelques images, pour essayer de comprendre le bonheur qui a été le sien en ces contrées sévères dont je n’im

En 1892, il fonde le Sierra Club. C’est la plus ancienne association de protection de la nature au monde, elle existe encore, elle continue d’agir dans un autre contexte, mais avec les mêmes motivations : « Rendre accessible à tous les régions montagneuses de la côte Pacifique, publier des connaissances authentiques les concernant, obtenir le souti

What does one conclude, in the final analysis, about this remarkable man? Surely, the Northwest will never again witness an individual with such sweeping power, simply because the unique opportunity provided by an opening frontier and a transportation monopoly will never again appear. It is entirely appropriate that the prime passenger train from C

Darwin would confide that Humboldt’s descriptions of the tropics, read over and over again during his youth, had inspired his entire career. Darwin also liked Humboldt’s account of an earthquake at Caracas enough to have lifted some of it, pretty much intact, for his Voyage of the Beagle.

four thousand miles of roadless, trailless terrain through a landscape

Any city that has the Library of Congress is my capital. Some of the best, most productive days of my life have been spent in its manuscript collection or working with its newspaper files. It is one of the wonders of the world. The statistics are staggering—twenty million books, of which less than a fourth are in English, nearly six million pieces