On 14th September 1869, thousands gathered to celebrate his centenary. In USA, with street parties and concerts and crowds  parading in the streets - in New York 25,000 ("his fame no nation can claim", headlined NY Times), in San Francisco, Chicago, Ohio, and Pittsburgh where President Grant addressed 10,000.  In Berlin, 80,000 celebrated for 6 hours in pouring rain and wind, along with crowds of thousands in another five major German cities.  Similarly, in Moscow, Mexico, across South America and Africa, in Australia and Egypt. 

           Darwin said he would not have boarded the Beagle nor conceived "Origin of Species", without Humboldt. 

          Goethe said that spending a few days with Humboldt was like "having lived several years"

Humboldt influenced many of the greatest thinkers, artists and scientists of his day. The list is endless: Thomas Jefferson, William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge,  Henry Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Simon Bolivar (who liberated South America, inspired by him), Brunel, Herschel, Babbage, Cuvier, Gauss, Humphrey Davy and Joseph Banks.  Jules Verne and Aldous Huxley refer to him, and the stream of thinking that he inaugurated led directly to Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring' and Lovelock's  'Gaia' as well as anticipating Tectonic Plate theory by 150 years.

So, do come and join Graham Kennish, who, in a brief hour, will try to inspire you as much as he has been, by this amazing man, who somehow appears to have been 'airbrushed' out of history in favour of our 'textbook-celebrated figures'. 

Graham hopes to leave you with a thirst to know more of him and to discover the immense influence he has had on the birthing and development of holistic and ecological thinking, against the tsunami of materialistic scientific thinking of the last 150 years, following his monumental explorations.