Quote by Douglas Preston

“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

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.

— Giuseppe Mazzini

No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

— Lester R. Brown

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

— Christian Lous Lange

“Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.”

— Fernand Braudel

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

— Niall Ferguson

“the Mosquitia civilization vanished everywhere all at once—in a sudden, civilization-wide catastrophe.”

— Douglas Preston

“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

“Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.”

— John Logan

The precedent is that civilizations collapse, and everything's stacked up for this one to go, and it's a mess when it happens.

— Gail Bradbrook

“There is no end or purpose to existence, only ceaseless creation and destruction, governed entirely by chance.”

— Anonymous