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# Charles C. Mann

(1935–2024)   Politician

 **93** quotes in **337** categories

A field called a milpa with many crops shows Mann’s view of mixed farming. He explains how ecosystems change over time, from early plants to a final forest climax. He also points out how drought and overuse helped the Maya collapse and why political promises often fall short.

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Charles C. Mann was a politician, best known for *1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus*.

## Quick Facts About Charles C. Mann

Born January 27, 1935

Died December 27, 2024

Profession Politician

Notable works 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

## About Charles C. Mann

American politician.

##  Quotes by Charles C. Mann

> [Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/japanese-maps-tend-to-come-in-two-varieties-small-schematic-and/)

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> [There are serious worries about unconventional gas and oil, especially those concerning the environment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/there-are-serious-worries-about-unconventional-gas-and-oil-especially/)

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[Climate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/climate/)

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> [The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/the-human-propensity-is-to-believe-that-flukes-of-good-fortune-will/)

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[Believe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/believe/)

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> [“Farmers learned to plant fallow fields with clover, which recharges the soil with nutrients.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/farmers-learned-to-plant-fallow-fields-with-clover-which-recharges/)

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[Farmers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/farmers/)

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> [Not only are utilities switching from coal and oil to gas, but also trucking, schoolbuses, garbage trucks, and even taxi fleets.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/not-only-are-utilities-switching-from-coal-and-oil-to-gas-but-also/)

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[Climate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/climate/)

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> [“After 1492 the world’s ecosystems collided and mixed as European vessels carried thousands of species to new homes across the oceans.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/after-1492-the-world-s-ecosystems-collided-and-mixed-as-european/)

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[Thousands Species](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thousands-species-629876/)

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> [The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/the-japanese-drive-on-the-left-side-of-the-road-most-streets/)

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[Drive](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/drive/)

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> [Like other parents, I want my children to be comfortable in their adult lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/like-other-parents-i-want-my-children-to-be-comfortable-in-their/)

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[Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/)

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> [Under the Paris agreement, every one of the 147 signatories issues what is called an 'intended nationally determined contribution' (INDC), which amounts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/under-the-paris-agreement-every-one-of-the-147-signatories-issues/)

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[Climate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/climate/)

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> [“At Marajó, Meggers and Evans soon noticed an oddity: the earliest traces of Marajóara culture were the most elaborate. As the centuries…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/at-maraj-meggers-and-evans-soon-noticed-an-oddity-the-earliest-traces/)

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[Ceramics](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ceramics/)

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> [“Half of the 102 people on the Mayflower made it through the first winter, which to me seemed amazing. How did they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/half-of-the-102-people-on-the-mayflower-made-it-through-the-first/)

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[History](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/history/)

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> [The legal fight over climate change begins in the United States with the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977. Under the Act,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/the-legal-fight-over-climate-change-begins-in-the-united-states-with/)

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[Air pollution](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/air-pollution/)

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> [“In the classic successional course, each suite of plants replaces its predecessor, until the arrival of the final, “climax” ecosystem, usually tall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/in-the-classic-successional-course-each-suite-of-plants-replaces-its/)

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[Flower](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/flower/)

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> [A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/a-whole-bunch-of-big-technological-shocks-occurred-when-asian/)

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[Asian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/asian/)

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> [Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/historically-large-scale-global-trade-has-served-two-functions-1-the/)

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[Buyers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/buyers/)

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> [Americans are willing to cheer on politicians who denounce bureaucratic overreach and job-killing red tape in abstract terms. But they turn out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/americans-are-willing-to-cheer-on-politicians-who-denounce/)

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[Drinking water](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/drinking-water/)

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> [“Because they did not burn the land with the same skill and frequency as its previous occupants, the forests grew thicker. Left…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/because-they-did-not-burn-the-land-with-the-same-skill-and-frequency/)

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[Bare trees](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bare-trees-14917/)

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> [“To we moderns the sensation of being in a constructed environment is so ubiquitous as to be invisible—in the cocoon of our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/to-we-moderns-the-sensation-of-being-in-a-constructed-environment-is/)

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[Environment](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/environment/)

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> [“A milpa is a field, usually but not always recently cleared, in which farmers plant a dozen crops at once, including maize,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/a-milpa-is-a-field-usually-but-not-always-recently-cleared-in-which/)

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[Crops](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/crops/)

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> [“The staple crop of the highlands was the potato, which unlike maize regularly grows at altitudes of 14,000 feet; the tubers, cultivated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/the-staple-crop-of-the-highlands-was-the-potato-which-unlike-maize/)

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[Crop Highlands](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/crop-highlands-4417703/)

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> [“Having grown separately for millennia, the Americas were a boundless sea of novel ideas, dreams, stories, philosophies, religions, moralities, discoveries, and all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/having-grown-separately-for-millennia-the-americas-were-a-boundless/)

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[Dreams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dreams/)

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> [“I kept waiting for the book to appear. The wait grew more frustrating when my son entered school and was taught the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/i-kept-waiting-for-the-book-to-appear-the-wait-grew-more-frustrating/)

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[Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/)

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> [Big Water makes an argument straight out of Economics 101. The best way to deliver water to people's homes efficiently, the water…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/big-water-makes-an-argument-straight-out-of-economics-101-the-best/)

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[Best](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/best/)

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> [“The viruses that cause smallpox, influenza, hepatitis, measles, encephalitis, and viral pneumonia; the bacteria that cause tuberculosis, diphtheria, cholera, typhus, scarlet fever,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/the-viruses-that-cause-smallpox-influenza-hepatitis-measles/)

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[History](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/history/)

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> [“With its federal government that can supersede state and local law, its dependence on rule by the majority rather than consensus, its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/with-its-federal-government-that-can-supersede-state-and-local-law/)

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[Federal government](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/federal-government/)

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> [“In Mesoamerica, timekeeping provided the stimulus that accounting gave to the Middle East. Like contemporary astrologers, the Olmec, Maya, and Zapotec believed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/in-mesoamerica-timekeeping-provided-the-stimulus-that-accounting-gave/)

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[Daily life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/daily-life/)

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> [“The portraits were intended to parade their fellows like specimens in a zoo. Yet at the same time most show the castizos,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/the-portraits-were-intended-to-parade-their-fellows-like-specimens-in/)

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[Business](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/business/)

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> [“Mesoamerica would deserve its place in the human pantheon if its inhabitants had only created maize, in terms of harvest weight the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/mesoamerica-would-deserve-its-place-in-the-human-pantheon-if-its/)

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[Around the world](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/around-the-world/)

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> [“Early farming villages worldwide were much less authoritarian places than later societies. But the Indians of the eastern seaboard institutionalized their liberty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/early-farming-villages-worldwide-were-much-less-authoritarian-places/)

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[Free people](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/free-people/)

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> [“Menaced by environmental problems, torn by struggles between the tiny coterie of wealthy Spaniards at the center and a teeming, fractious polyglot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/menaced-by-environmental-problems-torn-by-struggles-between-the-tiny/)

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[Environmental problems](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/environmental-problems/)

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> [“the king was talking with Bartolomé de las Casas, a fiery Dominican priest who had just completed Brief Account of the Destruction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/the-king-was-talking-with-bartolom-de-las-casas-a-fiery-dominican/)

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[De Las Casas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/de-las-casas-218599/)

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> [“At the same time, Wari and Tiwanaku kept themselves separate. Although they shared resources, there is little evidence that people from one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/at-the-same-time-wari-and-tiwanaku-kept-themselves-separate-although/)

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[Different languages](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/different-languages/)

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> [“Criminals beheaded in Palermo, heretics burned alive in Toledo, assassins drawn and quartered in Paris—Europeans flocked to every form of painful death…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/criminals-beheaded-in-palermo-heretics-burned-alive-in-toledo/)

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[Colonialism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/colonialism/)

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> [The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/the-japanese-are-great-at-inventing-complex-systems-of-rules-and-not/)

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[Complex systems](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/complex-systems/)

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> [“Colón’s signal accomplishment was, in the phrase of historian Alfred W. Crosby, to reknit the seams of Pangaea.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/col-n-s-signal-accomplishment-was-in-the-phrase-of-historian-alfred-w/)

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[Success](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/success/)

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> [A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/a-world-with-a-sudden-limit-on-air-travel-would-be-tremendously/)

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[Air](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/air/)

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> [“Anything goes now, apparently,” Fiedel told me. “The lunatics have taken over the asylum.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/anything-goes-now-apparently-fiedel-told-me-the-lunatics-have-taken/)

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[Lunatics](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lunatics/)

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> [Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/compared-with-u-s-cities-japanese-cities-bend-over-backward-to-help/)

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[Backward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/backward/)

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> [“mounting a sustained war. Unhappily, these intriguing speculations”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/mounting-a-sustained-war-unhappily-these-intriguing-speculations/)

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[Peace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/peace/)

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> [The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/the-embrace-of-a-new-technology-by-ordinary-people-leads-inevitably/)

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[Embrace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/embrace/)

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## Charles C. Mann by topic

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