Believe Quote by Murray Gell-Mann

It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For…

— Richard Leakey

“It seems that in almost all societies, the attitudes that people have to language change is basically the same. People everywhere tend to say…

— Terry Crowley

“Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

— Russell Hoban

A language Older Than Words

— Derrick Jensen

There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow,…

— Derrick Jensen

It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of…

— Jackson Pollock

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings…

— David Crystal

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same…

— Lytton Strachey

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words…

— Joshua Foer

If you go back a century in Europe, all over the place people were speaking different languages. There were dozens of languages in France…

— Noam Chomsky