America Quote by Henry David Thoreau

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs…

— Walter Benjamin

We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren't there enough…

— Rick Riordan

The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the…

— William Buckland

That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When…

— Henry David Thoreau

Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

— Anonymous

“All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a…

— William Dean Howells

Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out…

— Francis Bacon

Pompeii is an extraordinary place to be because it was preserved exactly as it was. There are many other sites. If you visit any…

— David Gilmour

We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl,…

— Erasmus Darwin

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

— John Webster

All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.

— Joseph Joubert