Civilisation Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.

— Henry David Thoreau

We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.

— John Fowles

Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

— Karl Lagerfeld

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

— Dalai Lama

Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is…

— Oscar Wilde

I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.

— Thomas Carlyle

We regard those other cultures, such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1,000 or…

— Arthur Erickson

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed…

— Elon Musk

Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.

— William Hurrell Mallock

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

— Freya Stark

Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it…

— W. G. Sebald

Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.

— Karl Lagerfeld