Charles C. Mann

"In the age of the internet there are all too many people who are willing to tell you what to think and not nearly enough trying to report what’s going on."

"Theres no question that what we want today would have seemed abhorrent to most people in the 1800s."

"We commonly call this hemisphere the New World, but it is just as old as the Old World, and has a past that is just as fabulous."