Agriculture Quote by Ariel Durant

Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to think of…

— Simon Schama

Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

— Ariel Durant

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are…

— Terence McKenna

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of…

— Charles A. Reich

Civilization has its roots in the soil.

— Charles Kellogg

Nature made the fields and man the cities.

— Marcus Terentius Varro

History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products of the…

— Hugh Hammond Bennett

“Since landscape changes like this from country to country it must owe very little to Nature: Nature is no more than the canvas, and…

— Richard Hughes

“Due to its inherently limited supply for each location, land obtains its value from the natural, social, and cultural wealth that exists in its…

— Martin Adams

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for…

— L. Sprague de Camp

Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind…

— Jamais Cascio