The inspiration to create this type of website comes from a couple of places.
One source is from reading about the life of Alexander von Humboldt, the famed polymath, geographer, naturalist and explorer, in a book called The Invention of Nature, by Andrea Wulf. His methods of recording and describing the physical world seemed to me to highlight the notion that everything is connected to everything. And, as an aside, he was the first person to talk about the notion of human-induced climate change -- more than 200 years ago!
Another source is the artwork of Donald Evans. He painted many beautiful series of stamps issued from imaginary countries. This gave birth to my imaginary country "Philatia," which issued stamps for all those genus-species that weren't commemorated by real countries.
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