Any Quote by Edward M. Lerner

“For example, the megafauna of New Zealand – which had weathered the alleged ‘climate change’ of c.45,000 years ago without a scratch – suffered…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.

— Dorothy Dunnett

Incredibly deep research combines with the talents of a fine historian and writer to produce superb narrative history. The true character and relationship of…

— Robert M. Utley

“So the badger poked up the fire, poured himself another cup of tea, and went back to the History to read the curious story…

— Susan Wittig Albert

Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

— Henry James

History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise.

— Doug Scott

The thing that struck me most about the Mount St. Helens project was not the devastation of the eruption, but the logging industry -…

— David Maisel

“In Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, geomorphologist David Montgomery offers numerous cautionary tales of kingdoms, cultures, and empires that squandered their soil and found…

— Judith D. Schwartz

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.

— Rollo May

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.

— Thomas Carlyle

Myth is sometimes more important than history.

— Adrian Dunbar