Agriculture Quote by Claire Denis

Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look…

— Helena

It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.

— Stendhal

I think it's important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since the beginning…

— Joel Salatin

As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

— Anonymous

I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic…

— Jermaine Jackson

On this waterlogged landscape…are scattered palaces and hovels…It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history…

— David Christian

In this country, there is an opportunity for the development of man's intellectual, cultural, and spiritual potentialities that has never existed before in the…

— Edwin Land

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness,…

— Walter Bagehot

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

It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land…

— Yasmina Khadra

We've been civilized from the beginning. In the desert, it's a baroque city like Paris or Rome.

— Larry Harvey