Quotes About Mayan Civilization

#1. The common liberal orthodoxy that living close to the land leads to eco-awareness is historically naive, considering that Mesopotamia, northern Africa, and the Mayan civilization were ruined by people who had lived there quite a long while.

Gregory Benford

#2. Instead of adapting, their leaders clung to power and strove instead to be the last ones to starve to death. The Mayan civilization in South America did the same, and I expect our own civilization will do likewise.

Daniel Suarez

#3. I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters.

Martin Buber

#4. This breakdown in the bicameral mind in what is called the Intermediate Period is reminiscent at least of those periodic breakdowns of Mayan civilizations when all authority suddenly collapsed, and the population melted back into tribal living in the jungles.

Julian Jaynes

#5. what we choose to focus on and what we choose to ignore - plays in defining the quality of our life.

Cal Newport

#6. She turned to go. The Beast would freeze if she left him there. He had saved her life. Cursing,

Liz Braswell

#7. The law of right-left symmetry was used in classical physics but was not of any great practical importance there. One reason for this derives from the fact that right-left symmetry is a discrete symmetry, unlike rotational symmetry, which is continuous.

Chen-Ning Yang

#8. To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call one's basic self-worth into question.

David Bayles

#9. Love, faith and hope can cure any ill-health.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!

Laura Linney

#11. The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.

Abraham Lincoln