Civilisation Quote by Anonymous

“No successes we might have are guaranteed to last as long as industrial civilization stands. Conversely, most of our losses are effectively permanent. Extinct…

— Aric McBay

But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the…

— Aristotle

The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for approximately forty…

— Charlotte Sophia Kasl

“You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There's been life on…

— Michael Crichton

It's a pity we're still officially living in an age called the Holocene. The Anthropocene - human dominance of biological, chemical and geological processes…

— Paul J. Crutzen

It is clear that every civilization undergoes a process of historical change. We can see that a civilization comes into existence, passes through a…

— Carroll Quigley

We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of…

— Serj Tankian

The purely material world seems to have more in common than we with the unchanging and everlasting years of the Great Creator. Yet we…

— Henry Parry Liddon

We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

In the next 30 years we can destroy our world. With the very same powers - spiritual, social, scientific - we can evolve our…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own…

— Thomas Browne

We do not have thousands of years to unlearn the wrong patters that were established over thousands of years. The exponential speed-up of these…

— Rosemary Radford Ruether