Civilization Quote by Toba Beta

“All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.”

— Havelock Ellis

“Possibly here in the Holocene, or just before 10 or 20 thousand years ago, life hit a peak of diversity. Then we appeared. We…

— Edward O. Wilson

“I'm a fan of the volcanic imagination. It bubbles and boils below the surface; it rumbles. When it erupts, continents are born.”

— C. Alexander London

“It wasn’t a bang or a boom. It was the dampest, most corpulent eruption in the history of terminal flatulence.”

— Terry Pratchett

“It is a terrible thing to do to unusual people, to drive them so deeply into themselves that each reemergence is a volcanic explosion.”

— Guntram Vesper

“Possibly here in the Holocene, or just before ten or twenty thousand years ago, life hit a peek of diversity. Then we appeared. We…

— Lynn Margulis

“The Earth is 4.54 billion years old. Its crust has repeatedly broken up, moved around, melted, and reformed.”

— Bill Nye

“(Montana may never be considered the epicenter of modern life, but about 65 to 70 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period, it…

— Patricia Schultz

“a worldwide flood destroyed all life on earth about five thousand years ago requires denying an immense amount of generally accepted knowledge—from astronomy, physics,…

— Marcus J. Borg

“THE GREATEST MYSTERY OF ALL TIME… THE HISTORY OF HUMAN ORIGINS… WILL BE REVEALED. 70,000 years ago, the human race almost went extinct. We…

— A.G. Riddle

“Five seconds, ten seconds, more change than ten thousand years of a human civilization. A billion trillion constructions, mold curling out from every wall,…

— Vernor Vinge

“The geological layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in…

— Bernard Schlink