#prehistoric

When we hold it (amber) in our hands, we hold also that furious epoch where rioted all monsters and poisons, where death fecundated and life destroyed, where superabundance demanded such existences, no souls, but fiercest animal fire - just for that I hate it! ↗

— Harriet Prescott Spofford

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#prehistoric #death

In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire. ↗

— James Theodore Bent

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