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Afterward, his mother grew reclusive and let tutors take most of the responsibility in raising her children as intelligent and honorable young adults.

She is the author of Chasing Venus, Founding Gardeners, The Brother Gardeners, which was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize and awarded the American Horticultural Society Book Award, and The Invention of Nature, a national best seller that won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Costa Biography Award, and the Royal Geographical Society Ness Award and was named one of The New York Times Top 10 Books of the Year.

He describes Earth as a living organism where everything is connected, you know, from the tiniest insect to the tallest tree.

Suddenly, everybody who's calling up, knowing his name.

And I think the reason why he's forgotten here is because in World War I, the anti-German sentiment is so strong that it's really not a time to celebrate a German scientist.

He says, they do that through the destructions of the forests, through irrigation, and through, what he calls, the great masses of steam and gas in the industrial centers.

So I think he was hoping that Jefferson will hear that.

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Wulf makes the case that Humboldt synthesized knowledge from many different fields to form a vision of nature as one interconnected system, that would go on to influence scientists, activists and the public.