Civilization is a stream with banks.
The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting, and doing things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry. I found this quote at our local Kinkos's pasted to some cardboard, ready to sell. I snatched it up immediately. Felt it was so appropriate to our recent thread. Thanks guys for making me think about all this and to have found it important to place this on my wall right now.