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8 years

Arrived in my hotel in Berlin and instead of bible I find 'universal declaration of human rights' in my room. Much better.

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I’ve lived in the UK for almost 30 years, I pay my taxes here, I’ve been called for jury service and I’m still not allowed to vote in the general election. It drives me nuts! So please use your vote to get rid of the Tories on my behalf - 4 July

Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer kick off election campaigns

PM to set off on two-day tour of UK nations and Labour leader to head to Tory areas in south-east England

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Happy birthday Alexander von Humboldt … visionary scientist & all too prescient when he warned more than 200 years ago about harmful human-induced climate change. Though clearly we didn’t listen.

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11 months

Jurassic Park in the fjords in Chile … absolutely magical … I’ve definitely been overusing the word “magical” in Chile but it’s MAGICAL here.

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2 years

Happy birthday Alexander von Humboldt. Visionary scientist and the man who predicted climate change.

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5 years

Humboldt died on 6 May 1859. The most famous scientist of his age and the forgotten father of environmentalism. After two books, hundreds of talks and interviews, and now a documentary I feel like his publicity team.

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9 months

Sorting my attic & found the herbarium I proudly kept as a 11-year-old.

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6 years

Very proud of this new book, pub in spring 2019: a graphic novel on Humboldt’s 5–year exploration of South America – an intimate portrait of him illustrated by amazing Lillian Melcher & Humboldt’s own diary pages, sketches, drawings & engravings.

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6 years

Happy birthday Mr Humboldt. 249th to be exact. Prescient, restless, curious and utterly fascinating. What a man - forgotten father of environmentalism, first to describe nature as web of life. It was an honour to write about you in “The Invention of Nature”

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11 months

Hot springs in the Chilean fjords … absolutely magical.

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5 years

Happy birthday Mr Humboldt. Out there in your Kosmos. Hope you like all the attention you’re getting. Check out the news. You’re everywhere #Humboldt250

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3 years

I think I’ve written a book! Uncorrected proofs arrived. Makes it suddenly real.

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5 years

This is so exciting. The German book cover of "Invention of Nature" is going to be a postal stamp in Germany to celebrate Humboldt's birthday. 80 cents. From 5 Sept.

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4 years

Happy 251st birthday Mr Humboldt. What a difference a year can make ...

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3 years

Happy Birthday Mr Humboldt!

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5 years

“My” stamps are now available in Germany. Based on the book cover of “Invention of Nature”. Pretty, no? Time to write some letters. #250Humboldt

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Thank you ⁦ @IsabelBehncke ⁩ for the most magical Chile trip. Mountains, sailing, hot water springs, sea lions, dolphins, a condor, spectacular fjords, dancing under stars, delicious food, wonderful conversations, laughter & a lonely Humboldt penguin. I’m in love with Chile.

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5 years

Best surprise ever ... when Sigourney Weaver comes to your talk. I mean ... Sigourney Weaver ... and she turns out to be super nice & smart. Thank you Mr Humboldt.

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4 years

My first proper veg garden. This has saved my sanity. Access to nature should be a human right.

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7 months

Nothing better than a few days of research in Berlin and an old fashioned card catalogue … #booktours #research #Berlin

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6 years

This is officially one of the most exciting days of my life. Finally saw Humboldt’s diaries not as digital images but the real ones. #goosebumps #nerds #humboldt #stabi #berlin

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2 years

Hello Berlin … Alexander von Humboldt still sitting in his winter hut.

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1 year

Happy birthday Caroline Michaelis-Böhmer-Schlegel-Schelling. Heart of the Young Romantics; translator of Shakespearebrilliant mind, fiercely independent & broke many conventions. And of course written out of history. She's at the heart of my book "Magnificent Rebels"

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On my way to Jena for Anthropocene Conference, I’m passing through Weißenfels where poet Novalis lived. Brilliant mind who became the epitome of the young Romantic.

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8 years

Only the Germans have words for moments like this: Weltschmerz. Despair caused by the state of the world. Or burden of world weighing on you

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2 years

Happy birthday to Friedrich Schlegel. Hot–tempered irascible “Magnificent Rebel” – one of the great minds of Romanticism. Believed that men and women were as equal as ‘petals of a single flower’ (from LUCINDE, his erotic autographical novel).

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6 years

The actual real thing just arrived. Advance copy of „Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt“. I think he would like it. Look at the gold on the cover ⁦ @lillian_melcher ⁩ ⁦ @pew_literary ⁩ ⁦ @PantheonBooks ⁩ ⁦ @johnmurrays ⁩

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2 years

Arrived home after 2 months away & ⁦ @peterfrankopan ⁩ new book had arrived. Never been more excited about a book. So important, so ambitious. Can’t think of a better historian to have written this.

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7 months

Jena … home of the “Magnificent Rebels” … always great to do a talk here #booktours

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1 year

Such a handsome new Polish edition of “Invention of Nature”.

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11 months

Three times lucky. After 2 cancelled trips to Chile, we finally made it to ALMA after 4 years. Utterly thrilling and otherworldly.

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3 years

Finally arrived … uncorrected proofs but almost a finished book. ‘Magnificent Rebels’ is out in Sept 2022. Can’t believe it’s finally (almost) done.

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6 years

Fab review in @nature of "Adventures": “The tale of adventure & discovery is well suited to the graphic format, and Wulf & Melcher do it proud. The informative, light-hearted text and inventive illustrations bring Humboldt’s rumbustious character to life"

Alexander von Humboldt: the graphic novel

Nature - Alison Abbott applauds an illustrated treatment of the great Prussian naturalist’s scientific exploits in South America.

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6 years

And here is a photo (sorry light was terrible) of Humboldt‘s parrot Jacob who was a girl BTW and who could only say “more coffee, more sugar”. Which reminds me that Humboldt called coffee “concentrated sunshine” ⁦ @MfNBerlin ⁩

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11 months

Wonderful audience @puertodeideas yesterday … I love how excited South Americans are about Humboldt.

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2 years

Gigantic display of German edition of “Magnifcent Rebels” in Austria’s biggest bookstore. Next to @GretaThunberg who is most certainly a magnificent rebel like all the amazing climate activists today #FridayForFuture #ExtinctionRebellion #LetzteGeneration

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2 years

Soon ... soon ... soon. Well, not quite soon enough. My new 'baby' is ready to face the world. Here is the glorious US cover (based on the glorious UK cover). Out in the UK on 1 Sept & in the US on 13 Sept (and in Germany on 17 Oct).

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4 years

Few books blew my mind like @MerlinSheldrake 'Entangled Life". The research, passion, writing, insights ... Not sure if I've ever learned so much from ONE book. Here is to another scientist who celebrates imagination. Essential reading. Go and get swept up in a new world.

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1 year

Paperbacks of “Magnificent Rebels” arrived - with a fabulous cover.

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11 months

And finally the sun is shining … have I been using the word magical too often? But it IS

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6 years

Such a fun day. Filming Humboldt re-enactment for documentary.

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5 years

Hello Mr Alex von Humboldt. As always when in Berlin, I have to say hi. This week you’re on Number 7 on Spiegel Bestseller List for “Invention” & Number 17 for “Adventures”. Happy days! Thank you for being such an amazing protagonist in my books.

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7 years

I have been banging on about importance of a sense of wonder - should be such an important aspect in climate change debates too.

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7 years

People who see awe-inspiring sights feel more happy, peaceful and generous

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4 years

After a long delay and crossing the Atlantic three times, I have finally ⁦ @EleanorHarvey ⁩’s magnificent Humboldt catalogue in my hands. Still devastated to miss the exhibition but this is as close as I can get.

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5 years

Absolutely unique opportunity. Stabi in Berlin is showing Humboldt’s legendary South America diaries. Go. Admire. See. Go. Go. This weekend only. When I saw them first, it inspired me to write “Adventures of Alex von Humboldt”. Best 250th present! Go.

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Dem großen Fernreisenden nahekommen: Ab morgen zeigen wir Alexander von Humboldts Reisetagebücher - natürlich im Original #Humboldt250 #AvH250

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6 years

Filming a Humboldt documentary simultaneously in German & English is frying my brain ... but there are perks. Flying with helicopter over Quito and Pichincha - a volcano Humboldt climbed 3 times #humboldt #ecuador #filming

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4 years

Not sure what I would do without my extraordinary 83-year-old mother who deciphers 18th c. German letters (written in Sütterlin script) for me.

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3 years

E.O.Wilson defined “biophilia” as love for natural world and “‘the rich, natural pleasure that comes from being surrounded by living organisms.” Such an important concept.

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5 years

I’m in lockdown in Germany. Really struggling with this new world. I’m a hugger & kisser. Can’t write or work. Building a veg garden instead. No shopping. So, found old rafters on neighbouring estate. Back breaking physical work #sanity

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6 years

Belated Humboldt birthday present. Today TWO books I did arrived in my letterbox - German paperback of Invention of Nature and Humboldt’s Selected Writings for Everyman’s Library which I edited and introduced (the latter for all those who want to dig into Humboldt’s writings)

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1 year

Monday giveaway. Happy to send signed foreign editions of “Invention of Nature” for free to addresses in the UK (sorry Brexit made posting to EU too expensive & unreliable). Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Greek & Dutch. Email me (email is on my website )

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5 months

@LiliaCouto1 No, because you have to pledge an oath of allegiance to the monarch and the heirs. Can’t do that.

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9 months

These are my happy days … looking at 18th century botanical drawings & herbarium specimens ⁦ @NHM_London ⁩

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3 years

Need a X-mas present? What about this beauty? “Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt”. Email me for a signed & personalised copy (£20 including postage … cheaper than Amazon). Or pb of “Invention of Nature” for £10. My email is on

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6 years

Happy day with Humboldt’s glorious HUGE books in Berlin. They take my breath away every single time.

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6 months

One of the many many delights about being ⁦ @sfiscience ⁩ is the joy of a road trip. This year Horseshoe Bend in AZ. It really looks like this. No filters #nature

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6 years

Cartagena, Bogotá, and tomorrow Quito. Humboldt and German President Steinmeier are taking me across South America #humboldt #steinmeier #writer

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6 years

Yeah! Finally after 2 1/2 years. Official publication date of the German edition of “Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt”.

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2 years

When your walk to work means this view ⁦ @sfiscience ⁩ …

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5 months

"Magnificent Rebels" is out in France ... and here is an interview in Le Monde.

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5 years

Today I was supposed to fly to Santa Fe for my fellowship ⁦ @sfiscience ⁩ ... instead I’m struggling to adjust to this new world. But as of today, I’ll start my “remote” fellowship. Work on my book. These rock formations will still be there next year.

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2 years

Happy Birthday to Friedrich Schiller - author of The Robbers, famous inhabitant of Jena and a man who needed a drawer full of rotten apples in his desk to write. And of course part of the colourful cast in “Magnificent Rebels”.

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5 years

No way to capture the dimensions... otherworldly gorgeous New Mexico. Yes, I also worked all week in my office ⁦ @sfiscience ⁩ ... thank you for the most amazing & productive time.

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11 months

Portuguese and Danish editions of “Magnificent Rebels” just arrived.

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10 years

Now this is how a proper study / library looks like - Humboldt in mid-19th. Very envious. http://t.co/wI7vlDzhxw

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5 years

Hello Berlin. Let the Birthday celebration begin. Humboldt’s 250th. Interview Marathon. Here we go ...

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6 years

I do have the best job in the world #andes #peru #booktours

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5 years

Hey Mr Humboldt, here is the Lichtenberg-Medal we were given last night by Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. And we’re still on Spiegel Bestseller List in Germany - this week Number 6 for “Invention” and Number 16 for “Adventures”. Not bad for your birthday year, huh?

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1 year

August Wilhelm Schlegel died today in 1845. Brilliant linguist, husband of formidable Caroline Schlegel, translator of Shakespeare (with her) & first professor of Indology in Germany. He also said “Notes on a poem are like an anatomical lecture on a piece of roast beef”

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6 years

One of those moments I could have not even dreamed up as an 18-year-old. Signed with Byron’s pen (!!!!!) my induction as a Fellow of Royal Society of Literature ... of course it’s the ornamented gold one. Oh, and yes, I’m one of those foreigners. #Byron #Literature #dreams

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6 years

A 'small' pile of German review copies of 'The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt' has arrived at C.Bertelsmann office. We are getting ready. Official launch at Leipzig Bookfair next week.

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It's Humboldt's 250th birthday week - and I managed to stay in Spiegel Bestseller List in Germany with both books. "Invention" on Nr.9 and "Adventures" on Nr.17. Happy birthday Mr. Humboldt - we did it. And thank you my fantastic readers! Off to Berlin tomorrow for celebrations.

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6 years

Lucky me ... first interview for “The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt” was in Colombia (for German TV)

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2 years

€49-a-month public transport ticket covering regional rail, metro, trams and bus travel across Germany … why can’t we have that in UK? Rail travel soooo ridiculously expensive here.

Germany gives green light to €49-a-month public transport ticket

Plan for ticket covering regional rail, metro, trams and buses across country follows success of €9 scheme last year

www.theguardian.com

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6 years

“Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt” on beautiful stone at Botanical Garden Cartagena ... gold foil shining in the sun. Long long day ... ⁦ @lillian_melcher ⁩

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9 May 1805 – Schiller’s death. Goethe was so devastated that he couldn’t attend funeral. 'I lose a friend and, with him, half of my own life'. Pages of Goethe’s diary after Schiller’s death are blank – the expression, he later said, of his ‘hollowed condition’ #MagnificentRebels

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3 years

After 4 years of research and writing. Last walk through Jena with historical maps. Just checking. And double checking. And checking again.

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11 months

“Magnificent Rebels” picked in NY Times as one of their 6 paperbacks to read this week.

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5 years

Wow. "Invention of Nature" still on Number 5 in Germany's bestseller list. And "Adventures" back on Number 15. Thank you. These past few years but especially weeks have been quite a ride.

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2 years

Happy International Women’s Day … one of my favourite historical women is fiercely independently–minded Caroline Michaelis–Böhmer–Schlegel–Schelling. Widowed, pregnant after a one–night stand, imprisoned as revolutionary, soul of Jena Set, sharp literary critic.

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Audiences in Latin America are my favourites … full house, passionate readers, book lovers (and buyers!!). Thank you @hayfestival_esp for inviting me back to Cartagena. And look at the beautiful set design.

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7 months

Tonight a talk in Dresden where the Magnificent Rebels spent a glorious summer in 1798 #booktours

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6 years

Magnificent drone footage of the hut where Humboldt spent a night on Antisana (from presidential trip with Steinmeier). Thank you Florian Mettke.

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He examined volcanoes to understand how the Earth was created: Humboldt. He spent the night in freezing temperatures in this hut in 1802. The next day he climbed Antisana. #Steinmeier on the trail of #humboldt250 , #Ecuador

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5 years

This can’t be the country I’ve called home for past 23 years. It feels very symbolic to be crossing the Channel right now. On my to Germany to work on my new book that has nothing to do with the UK. What a sad sad sad day.

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6 years

Thank you to overwhelming fab response to my announcement yesterday of forthcoming graphic novel on Humboldt. So exciting to get all your lovely comments. Thank you.

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6 years

Very proud of this new book, pub in spring 2019: a graphic novel on Humboldt’s 5–year exploration of South America – an intimate portrait of him illustrated by amazing Lillian Melcher & Humboldt’s own diary pages, sketches, drawings & engravings.

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2 years

Very much looking forward to giving a talk in Santa Fe this Tuesday hosted by the marvellous @sfiscience

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2 years

Please join @sfiscience for a streaming public lecture Tues, Aug 2 by historian+Miller Scholar @andrea_wulf , who will discuss the profound cultural+scientific significance of Humboldt's re-framing of nature as a living organism.

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Press waiting for German President Steinmeier in Quito. Two speeches today about the importance & relevance of Humboldt today. Never would have thought to hear a statesman say that when I started “Invention of Nature”

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5 years

Good bye glorious New Mexico. I’m utterly in love with you. Maybe I lived here in a previous life. I want to breath this landscape.And thank you ⁦ @sfiscience ⁩ for having me here. Stimulation for mind & soul. Can’t wait to come back next year.

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4 years

Silver lining (only one) of COVID for me: not bought any vegetables for 4 weeks now. Feeding us from my first ever veg garden. My carbon footprint tumbled: no flights & car ... food miles: zero. However, far too much plastic packaging on online purchases.

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5 years

Makes me so happy to see my books in all the German bookstores. Thank you.

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5 years

Look at this amazing photo from yesterday’s climate strike in Hamburg. Almost wants me to move back to the city I grew up in. Same number of people as London but a much smaller city. #climatestrike

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5 years

This feels a lifetime ago. We filmed this in South America almost 2 years ago & finally premiering tonight in US.

Smithsonian Channel

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5 years

Ready for a journey through the high mountains and lush jungles of South America? Tune in tomorrow at 8PM for the premiere of Humboldt: Epic Explorer. ⛰️

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Always good to be back in Jena #MagnificentRebels #Humboldt

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4 months

Join us on 24 June at 19:30 for a public lecture (in English) from bestselling author Andrea Wulf! Her lecture, ‘The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World” will be presented at the Volkshaus in Jena free of charge #thueringenweltoffen

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Loved Valparaiso’s street art. Thank you for having me ⁦ @puertodeideas ⁩

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4 years

Mama with her 4 babes - I counted 24 swallows in my shed this morning.

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6 years

In past week I’ve heard German Federal President Steinmeier as well as Presidents of Colombia & Ecuador refer to Alexander von Humboldt. Now Angela Merkel reminded Munich Security Conference of Humboldt’s words “Everything is interrelated”. Don’t tell me he’s not relevant!!

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6 years

Feels very appropriate to be at Humboldt’s grave at #WorldEnvironmentDay since he ‘s the forgotten father of environmentalism