Nothing had prepared me for the immense surprise of these pictures in a native hut, far away from civilisation, in a fold of the mountain above Taravao.
They sounded strangely in the tropical night thousands of miles from civilisation.
Here all the decencies of civilisation are swept away, and you feel that men are face to face with a sombre reality.
They look upon conversation as the great pleasure of life, thereby proving the excellence of their civilisation, and for the most part they are entertaining talkers.
Nothing ever happened in that little town, left behind by the advance of civilisation, and one year followed the next till death came, like a friend, to give rest to those who had laboured so diligently.
Impartially examining this reflection, and carefully balancing the claims to civilisation of Italy and Finland, Mr.
I left civilisation and those accursed dopes behind me and went to the Yukon.
You must persuade him to come back to civilisation.
(1) The desire to be beautiful is as old as civilisation, as is the pain that it can cause.
Wisdom of the ancients always served civilisation well.
He's back with another genre-expanding inquiry perched somewhere between science and fantasy with Annihilation, an adaptation of the 2014 Jeff VanderMeer novel about a soldier grievously injured on a plot of land cut off from civilisation and strangely altered by extraterrestrial forces, and his scientist wife who ventures inside the alien zone looking for a way to save him.
Wisdom of the ancients always served civilisation well.
2-mile (10km) 'dinosaur-destroyer' are rare, an asteroid a fifth the size could spell disaster for civilisation.
Since then, internet civilisation has mushroomed.
But civilisation would survive the absence of iPads and iPhones.
More excitable commentators predict the era of the mass production of ideas, of a "second renaissance", of the flowering of a global civilisation.
After the singularity, our civilisation would be in the hands of cyborgs, or brains uploaded into the cloud, or genetically enhanced superbeings, or something else able to make itself smarter at a tremendous rate.
These reactions should not come as a surprise, Europe's fear of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers is replicated in both Australia and the US — rich, largely white countries that were once offshoots of European civilisation.
They say that if we were to broadcast our position, it could invite a hostile alien race to our doorstep - and ultimately spell the end of civilisation.
" Nothing would be easier than to caricature China's golden water closets as symbols of a civilisation in decline.
