Civilization Quote by Kathleen Jamie

“We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. We…

— Orhan Pamuk

“The great museums may harbour the conscience for the natural world, not merely provide its catalogue.”

— Richard Fortey

“Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks.”

— Roger Caras

“Embracing the wonders of nature can help us to discover how to release the inner holdings that have kept us walled off from our…

— Regina M Powers

“Museums hold collections in trust for future generations. It is our responsibility to see that these objects—representing the cultural heritage of more than 8,000…

— Holly Witchey

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

— Roger Caras

“Engage in a loving archaeological dig back to yourself. Let all that is not yours within you fall away until only your real nature…

— Jewel

“In a manner of speaking, the fact that humankind itself is unpredictable is the quintessential stumbling-block for archaeologists. We have to assume that the…

— Laurence Flanagan

“Museums are the anthropological screened porches of suburbia. You can be near something great, but not actually personally experience it.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must…

— Aldo Leopold

“Human beings have always been an unfinished species, a story in the middle, a succession of families, tribes, and societies in transition to new…

— Tony Hiss

“Nature is relic of pre-human civilizations.”

— Toba Beta