There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.
Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.
If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.
Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being a few hunters and gatherers to become more sedentary agriculture-based civilizations, which then moved us to the current populated modern era.
I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.