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- Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded… — Bill McKibben
- In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian… — Barbara Ehrenreich
- A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room. — Per Petterson
- The things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never look at.… — Jean Dubuffet
- Heaven has appointed me to rule all the nations, for hitherto there has been no order upon the steppes. — Genghis Khan
- Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and… — Edith Hall
- Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours… — Paddy Ashdown
- A name with a gently exotic ring to it, like birdsong, like a grain of sand in the far-off Gobi Desert or… — Sijie Dai
- We all have our prayer-wheels which we set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away… — Learned Hand
- There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but… — Hermann Hesse
- Celebrating historic triumphs is a favorite pastime for many Turks. Tales of how Turkic peoples emerged from Central Asia, crossed the steppes… — Stephen Kinzer