What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“The same solution--that Easter Island was once part of a much larger landmass--would also explain another, very different puzzle, namely the so-called… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the… — William E. Rees Copy Share Image
In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“from the tiny spaceport on Easter Island (the name was an entirely meaningless coincidence—in Galacticspeke, easter means small, flat and light-brown) to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“History teaches us many things. Most importantly, the things that made us who and what we are.” — Robert Bonville Copy Share Image
“Christ will never more come down to earth nor will there be any law-giver, nor will murder cease nor theft, nor rape,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Globalization makes it impossible for modern societies to collapse in isolation, as did Easter Island and the Greenland Norse in the past.… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“Legends speak of a primeval Pacific homeland called "Hiva" from which the first inhabitants of Easter Island came--a homeland that also fell… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
“Whether an island such as Easter Island can be considered remote is simply a matter of perspective. Those who live there, the… — Judith Schalansky Copy Share Image
“I was particularly impressed by the varying degrees of weathering and erosion seen on the different moai, which could be telltale signs… — Robert M. Schoch Copy Share Image
The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“(A recent study of pollen and animal remains on Easter Island concluded that it wasn’t humans who deforested the landscape; rather, it… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island. — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I am very attracted by the mysterious landscape of Easter Island. Not only because it is a piece of land that is… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contest and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the… — Jason Scott Lee Copy Share Image
“offers numerous cautionary tales of kingdoms, cultures, and empires that squandered their soil and found themselves with nothing left to live on.… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
the place (Dogtown, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, fh) is forsaken and majestically lovely as if nature had at last formed one spot where… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
