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"From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment."
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"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
"There is nothing more savage than modern civilization."
"It ain't technology that enhances the civilization..but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints."
"Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!"
"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."
"Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down."
"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."
"Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."
"Education is not the amount of information that is pushed into the brain and causes havoc there, undigested all through a lifetime. Education must be a symposium of life-building, character- making and assimilation of ideas in the pursuit of building a more harmonious, peaceful and truly civilized world."
"Knowledge is the key driver of the progress of civilization."
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"Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects."
"The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward."
"According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin."
"As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie."
"The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity."
"Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man."
"Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have approached America by different paths."
"The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind."
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