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“The forest creaks, but the jungle does not.
The jungle bubbles over, full of eyes: life grows in it the way lava grows in volcanoes.” [1]
They ventured into the jungle following the light of the new moon. They forded rivers and lakes of salt water. They “carefully mapped the hundreds of square miles between the Sierra Nevadas and the Rocky Mountains, the British domains of Canada and the Tropical Republic of Mexico, correcting at every step the errors that spoiled the maps.” [2]
In their minds they carried that blurred image from the illustrations made by Von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland around 1799, when they set sail aboard the corvette Pizarro, leaving Coruña to reach New Spain, New Granada, and Peru. “We ran around like mad from place to place, unable to make clear observations because when we caught some rare specimen, we abandoned it as soon as we saw another even more curious beside it,” Von Humboldt wrote to his brother Wilhelm in one of the preserved letters.
Life grew wild…
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“The forest creaks, but the jungle does not.
The jungle bubbles over, full of eyes: life grows in it the way lava grows in volcanoes.” [1]
They ventured into the jungle following the light of the new moon. They forded rivers and lakes of salt water. They “carefully mapped the hundreds of square miles between the Sierra Nevadas and the Rocky Mountains, the British domains of Canada and the Tropical Republic of Mexico, correcting at every step the errors that spoiled the maps.” [2]
In their minds they carried that blurred image from the illustrations made by Von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland around 1799, when they set sail aboard the corvette Pizarro, leaving Coruña to reach New Spain, New Granada, and Peru. “We ran around like mad from place to place, unable to make clear observations because when we caught some rare specimen, we abandoned it as soon as we saw another even more curious beside it,” Von Humboldt wrote to his brother Wilhelm in one of the preserved letters.
Life grew wild…
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