Beautiful Quote by Allan Bloom

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.

— Allan Bloom

“Those who are ignorant of Geology, find no difficulty in believing that the world was made as it is; and the shepherd, untutored in…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

How ignorant we are! How ignorant everyone is! We can cut across only a small area of the appallingly expanding fields of knowledge. No…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of…

— Charles Darwin

“I wonder now why humans hate the map of their life that appears on their own bodies, when a tree like this, or a…

— Lucinda Riley

Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant…

— Marilynne Robinson

To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of…

— Derrick Jensen

“We know we are a species obsessed with itself and its own past and origins. We know we are capable of removing from the…

— Kathleen Jamie

We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich…

— Carl Sagan

No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations…

— John Muir

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

— Mark Twain

When all is said and done, we exist only in relation to the world, and our senses evolved as scouts who bridge that divide…

— Diane Ackerman