Quote by Charles C. Mann

“ Maya felt the turbulent maelstrom of emotions inside her, stirred by all she had seen on her circumnavigation, by all that had happened…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Instead of adapting, their leaders clung to power and strove instead to be the last ones to starve to death. The Mayan civilization in…

— Daniel Suarez

“They ruined their environment, and their civilization collapsed. You'd think their descendants would have learned not to kill the earth that feeds them, but…

— Nancy Farmer

This Maya is everywhere. It is terrible. Yet we have to work through it. The man who says that he will work when the…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Like the burning of the ancient library at Alexandria or the supremely ignorant incineration of stacks of invaluable Mayan codices, the loss of knowledge…

— Jonathon Miller Weisberger

Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of…

— William E. Rees

“Sometimes, a society can see its end approaching from afar and still not be able to adapt, like the Maya; at other times, the…

— Douglas Preston

This breakdown in the bicameral mind in what is called the Intermediate Period is reminiscent at least of those periodic breakdowns of Mayan civilizations…

— Julian Jaynes

“Most of the salt occurred in the sediments on the swamp bottoms. To make the water potable, the Maya laid a layer of crushed…

— Charles C. Mann

Humans are becoming so stupid that sometimes I wished the Mayans were right.

— Joana L

The world is entering another dark age. After 1985, the Maya will be so thick that it will be difficult to advance spiritually without…

— Frederick Lenz

Hmm, this may just be my last ever tweet if the Mayans were correct.

— Asa Butterfield