The knowledge you get from this generation has to be handed down in order to create vast civilizations capable of taking you to the stars".
When Mr. Lévi-Strauss studied the Bororo of central Brazil in the 1930's, he was fascinated by the sheer excess of their body painting, seeing it as the remnant of a vast vanished civilization.
An elegant man and accomplished scientist, with patents in the field of optical communications, he said that Iraq's salvation could come from seeking commonalities, embracing its vast, long civilization in its fullness, instead of focusing on the smaller print — its religious differences.
The area known as Belize was central to the vast Mayan Civilization existing around 2,000 B.C. Dozens of pyramids and ruins, most not yet excavated, can be found throughout the country.
James Schellenberg writing in Challenging Destiny, a Canadian science fiction and fantasy magazine, was impressed by Shikasta "grand sense of perspective" and the context of humanity set in a "vaster scale of civilization and right-thinking".
The gradual devastation of the Amazon — the felling of thousands of square miles of forest, the clear-cutting of the jungle — has produced, paradoxically, one of the greatest archeological discoveries: a vast and complex ancient civilization.
Borderlands' crumbling shanties, decaying canyons, garbage glaciers and mutant-infested encampments beyond civilization are vast and artful enough that you can simply drift in them for hours, blowing away everything that moves.
By David Grann January 7 , 2010The gradual devastation of the Amazon — the felling of thousands of square miles of forest, the clear-cutting of the jungle — has produced, paradoxically, one of the greatest archeological discoveries: a vast and complex ancient civilization.
Cloud computing and the Internet of Things (IoT) embody vast promise for advancing civilization.
