Quotes About The Fertile Crescent

#1. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers created the 'Fertile Crescent' where some of the first civilizations emerged. Today they are immensely important resources, politically as well as geographically.

Stephen Kinzer

#2. Civilization began in the Fertile Crescent, not because it was an Edenic place overflowing with natural resources, but because it was so hostile to settlement that a village of any size needed careful management to survive.

Susan Wise Bauer

#3. One cannot analyse the character of European gardens without looking beyond the Mediterranean. This is because horticulture, palace life and city-building developed in the Fertile Crescent before spreading, via Crete, Greece, Egypt and Italy to the forests of Europe

Tom Turner

#4. Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new technology. Those who could not or would not eventually became priests, politicians, and bureaucrats.

G. Harry Stine

#5. seen Nineveh repent a century earlier (see the book of Jonah), but the city had fallen back into wickedness. Assyria, the world power controlling the Fertile Crescent, seemed unstoppable. Its ruthless and savage warriors had already conquered Israel, the northern kingdom,

Anonymous

#6. Their boots were black and shiny and your treasures gleamed like stars,
Bones from deep down in the fertile crescent.

John Darnielle

#7. I enjoy the song writing process more than anything. It's what I like the most, just sitting in my room with guitar or at the piano or something. Just making something up, something that's not there, that suddenly is there.

Bernard Fanning

#8. I paint - I tend more to abstraction - but not as much as I would like to because of time. I would love to do sculpture - I've toyed with the idea of fitting in a sculpture course.

Lily Cole

#9. The nation had had two symbols of solitude, the forest and the prairies; now it had a third, the mountains.

Bernard DeVoto

#10. These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through.

David Nicholls

#11. If we want to pick the point where a man's sexual appeal has reached its limit, it's there: forty.

Christian Rudder

#12. School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony.

John Taylor Gatto

#13. Maybe I just left it too late, and things changed too much for us to go back to where we were.

Kate Le Vann

#14. We want to feel that our world is intelligible, so we can be responsible for

Matthew B. Crawford