Air conditioning Quote by Lawrence Chua

“The air-conditioning was more like a vague gesture toward the abstract idea of air-conditioning.”

— David Foster Wallace

“But there was air conditioning. Sweet, precious, thank-you-baby-Jesus air conditioning.”

— Amanda Heger

“Civilization is like air or water. Wherever there is a passage, be it only a fissure, it will penetrate and modify the conditions of…

— Jules Verne

“Are not they temperate from a kind of intemperance?”

— Plato

“I know only that civilizations seem to be like people. They are born, they grow to maturity, then they age and lose their vitality…

— Louis L'Amour

“What distinguishes a technological world is that the terms of nature are obscured; one need not live quite in the present or the local.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“The thing about the literature of any country is that it is a sort of climate that one breathes,”

— Jane Fletcher Geniesse

“Civilization is perhaps nothing but a process of finding out what you cannot have.”

— Sherwood Anderson

“People are by and large a product of where they were born and raised. How you think and feel's always linked to the lie…

— Haruki Murakami

“Long time ago, many pre-human civilizations had developed so advanced into a level where most people today assume them simply as works of nature.”

— Toba Beta

“Every civilization had to start with the basics: food, water, and shelter.”

— Brett Arquette

“Economy and environment are the same thing. That is the rule of nature.”

— Mollie Beattie