"As I see it, humans are now technologically advanced enough that we can create not only extraordinary wonders but also civilization-scale problems," he writes on the clock's website.
This intuitive sense of connection, not only with his grandfather's work but also with another civilization that fell centuries earlier, lends "The Vanished Empire" a historical resonance that ultimately reflects on Sergey's personal relationships.
But Mr. Sanderson's wonder is not reserved solely for that green breast, but also for what civilization has made of it, which is one reason he began the Mannahatta Project (themannahattaproject.org) as part of his work for the Wildlife Conservation Society, studying the effect of humanity on the natural world.
That bomb was not just a city-killer, but also a potential civilization destroyer.
The rest of the world will learn to see China not only as the paradigm of cunning despotism, but also as a civilization that affords the principles of symmetry, balance, circularity and continuity an appropriate status -- in contrast to Western nations, which are less and less in control of their great experiment with asymmetry, imbalance, irreversibility and discontinuity.
This is a general history not only of Islam but also of other civilizations known to the author.
Turning the attention from the southwest to the southeast coast, you will find Baiyue culture has not only laid the foundation for the region's highland civilization, but also accounted for the spread and influence of the ancient Chinese marine culture, also known as "Marine China".
"The cellphone is a great gift of civilization but also one of its pollutants," Ms. Kim added.
Thus, epigraphy not merely supplements the literary record of Greek civilization but also complements it in important aspects.
He objected to the belief that literature preserved the highest values of our civilization, but also to the opposed idea that it was deeply complicit with the worst.
The same Europe that not only created today's civilization, but also continues to be the world's leading political laboratory for testing new social and ethical approaches, which are then adapted and implemented around the world.
