Agriculture is the source of civilization, and

Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics.

— Ramez Naam

It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby to civilization.

— Carl Sagan

When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three…

— Wes Jackson

I believe we can create a truly humane, sustainable, and health food production system without killing any animals. I imagine a revolution in veganic…

— Gene Baur

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

— Milton Friedman

More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature.

— Charles Eisenstein

What was lost in the European cataclysm was not only the Jewish past--the whole life of a civilization--but also a major share ofthe Jewish…

— Cynthia Ozick

“Civilization is only a pretense; in the crisis, we become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and becoming instead the…

— Orson Scott Card

We civilizations now know ourselves mortal.

— Paul Valery

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

— Bill Cosby

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

— Sigmund Freud

“Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, under the banner of which it is quite convenient to use words…

— Leo Tolstoy

When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a major sports…

— Anonymous

Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many…

— James Joyce

What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and…

— Octavio Paz