Maren

“My own opinion is, that however this one-sided horn may really be used by the Narwhal—however that may be—it would certainly be very convenient to him for a folder in reading pamphlets.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“Haeckel illustrated his zoological work with his own drawings of perfect scientific accuracy but also of remarkable beauty. It helped that he could look with one eye into his microscope while the other focused on his drawing board--a talent so unusual that his former professors said they had never seen someone capable of it.”
― Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

“This connection between knowledge, art and poetry, between science and emotions--the 'deeply-seated bond', as Humboldt called it--is more important than ever before. Humboldt was driven by a sense of wonder for the natural world--a sense of wonder that might help us today realise that we will protect only what we love.”
― Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

“You are no ruin, sir—no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre