If the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies,no matter how rich it might be, or how mechanically clever. Whatever comes, this too shall pass away. Ella Wheeler Wilcox Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks.
Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.
Reno is a green grassy City, filled with shady tree lined streets and Parks, along the normally well behaved Truckee River. Reno is a Desert Oasis Paradise at the End of the Great American Desert.