“ People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development. Yasunari Kawabata
“ Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will bring nothing but good into the world; that it shall abridge distance,… Octave Chanute
“ Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them. Gene Roddenberry
“ Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. Ambrose Bierce
“ One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class. Herbert Hoover
“ The civilizations barter in coldness; they peddles it, reinforces it, market it, entices with it, reward it, and then flees from it when it's unchecked force is too much to marvel at. Soon absolute ze… Justin K. McFarlane Beau
“ The first Abenaki word I ever learned was Bitawbagok – the word they use for Lake Champlain. It means, literally, the waters between. Since I’ve come back from Quebec, I have thought of my address as… Jodi Picoult
“ All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it,… David Baldacci
“ Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water. Laura Anne Gilman
“ To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central human system of thought. Robert Graves
