A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye. Joan Didion
But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good. Bill Walton
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome. John Henrik Clarke
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. John Burroughs