Maya

“Time and space. Castillian needs two words : ' tiempo ' and ' espacio '. Quechua has one : ' pacha '. Pacha is space, and Pacha is time, for neither exists without the other.”
― Ronald Wright, The Gold Eaters

“Watch nearly any documentary film that uses CGI to recreate dinosaurs in their natural Mesozoic habitats and you will never see a dinosaur sitting, lying down, sleeping, or otherwise taking it easy. That is understandable on the part of the director and animators, because the attention span of viewers would decrease in inverse proportion to the lenght of such segment and they would quickly switch to the channel to watch they favorite reality-TV stars. (Coincidentally, these "stars" will be mostly sitting, lying down, sleeping, or otherwise taking it easy.)”
― Anthony J Martin, Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils

“They were the Land people. We were the sea people.”
― William Brinkley, The Last Ship

“Humans often valued what they should not, she reflected, and most often they did not value what was right before their eyes.”
― Christina Henry, The Mermaid