Humboldt pioneered the concept of nature as a web of life from "summary" of The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf
Humboldt's groundbreaking idea that nature is interconnected and interdependent revolutionized the way people viewed the natural world. Instead of seeing individual species or ecosystems in isolation, he saw them as part of a vast web of life where everything was connected. This concept was a departure from the prevailing view at the time, which tended to see nature as a collection of separate and unrelated parts. By emphasizing the connections between different elements of nature, Humboldt showed that changes in one part of the ecosystem could have far-reaching effects on the rest. He demonstrated how the health of a forest, for example, was intimately tied to the health of the rivers that flowed through it, and how the migration patterns of birds could be influenced by changes in climate thousands of miles away. In doing so, he laid the groundwork for modern ecological thinkin...
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