„And this is where it went. In places all around the eastern Mediterranean the sea is separated from the mainland by strips of flat marshy land like this. Made up of the soil that once clothed the hills beyond. All this was deposited during the last 2000 years. This is the marsh that now separates the sea from the city of Ephesus. These ruined buildings mark the edge of the quay where once merchant ships lay moored. As the harbour died, so did the trade upon which the city's wealth was based, and so, well, ultimately did Ephesus itself. What was once one of the most splendid cities in the Roman Empire fell into decay and was abandoned.“
50 min 10 sec
The First Eden (1987)
David Attenborough1
brit természettudós, dokumentumfilmes 1926Hasonló idézetek
— John Brunner, könyv The Sheep Look Up
November “THERE IS HOPE YET”
The Sheep Look Up (1972)
— Charles Lyell, könyv Principles of Geology
(1832) Vol.1 Chpt.2, p. 20
Principles of Geology (1832), Vol. 1
Kontextus: Strabo,... enters largely, in the Second Book of his Geography, into the opinions of Eratosthenes and other Greeks on one of the most difficult problems in geology, viz., by what causes marine shells came to be plentifully buried in the earth at such great elevations and distances from the sea. He notices, amongst others, the explanation of Xanthus the Lyclian, who said that the seas had once been more extensive, and that they had afterwards been partially dried up, as in his own time many lakes, rivers, and wells in Asia had failed during a season of drought. Treating this conjecture with merited disregard, Strabo passes on to the hypothesis of Strato, the natural philosopher, who had observed that the quantity of mud brought down by rivers into the Euxine was so great, that its bed must be gradually raised, while the rivers still continued to pour in an undiminished quantity of water. He therefore conceived that, originally, when the Euxine was an inland sea, its level had by this means become so much elevated that it burst its barrier near Byzantium, and formed a communication with the Propontis, and this partial drainage had already, he supposed, converted the left side into marshy ground, and that, at last, the whole would be choked up with soil. So, it was argued, the Mediterranean had once opened a passage for itself by the Columns of Hercules into the Atlantic, and perhaps the abundance of sea-shells in Africa, near the Temple of Jupiter Ammon, might also be the deposit of some former inland sea, which had at length forced a passage and escaped.
— Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XVI Physical Geography
— Catherine Doherty Religious order founder; Servant of God 1896 - 1985
"Living the Mandate", p. 40
The last part of the quote, about those who trade their souls to the 'in between', alludes to Rev 3:15-16.
Unfinished Pilgrimage (1995)
— Vitruvius, könyv De architectura
Forrás: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter VII "The Sites for Public Buildings" Sec. 1
— Geoffrey Blainey Australian historian 1930
The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Rise of a New Australia (2016)
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American poet 1807 - 1882
Lady Wentworth.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
— François Bernier French physician and traveller 1620 - 1688
Quoted from Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
Travels in the Mogul Empire (1656-1668)
„You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.“
— Jonathan Lethem, könyv The Fortress of Solitude
Forrás: The Fortress of Solitude
— Jimmy Buffett American singer–songwriter and businessman 1946
One Particular Harbour, written with Bobby Holcomb
Song lyrics, One Particular Harbour (1983)
— Barbara Hepworth English sculptor 1903 - 1975
Forrás: 1932 - 1946, The Studio 132:643', (1946), p. 280
