Eurasian Steppe Quotes

“The wind whistles over the bare steppe — hot and dry in the summer, freezing in winter. Nothing has ever been known to grow on that steppe, least of all between four barbed-wire fences.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

“Attila, just like every other nomadic conqueror, appreciated the skills of the clever craftsmen and engineers of rival sedentary, bureaucratic empires.”
― Kenneth W. Harl, Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization