Famous quotes containing the words desert and/or cities:
“Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes.... It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.”
—Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)