Average Quote by Bill Bryson

“Most peasant farmers and herders, who constitute the great majority of the world's actual food producers, aren't necessarily better off than hunter-gatherers. Time budget…

— Jared Diamond

“For the vast majority of our time on earth, our species did not buy its food or its clothing or its shelter or its…

— Matthew Fox

“Eating a Paleolithic diet is not about historical re-enactment; it is about mimicking the effect of such a diet on the metabolism with foods…

— John Durant

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

— Benjamin Franklin

It is clear that agriculture as we know it has experienced major changes within the life expectancy of most of us, and these changes…

— Richard Lamm

Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. The…

— Jared Diamond

Times were so hard it was difficult to feed and lodge humans, much less animals.

— Margaret Mitchell

Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.

— Michael Pollan

Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons, some protection…

— Charles Heiser

It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.

— Stephen Gardiner

“Archaeologists studying the rise of farming have reconstructed for us a stage where we made one of the most crucial decisions in human history.…

— Jared Diamond

“Because a hunter's labor did not augment the food supply but could only reduce it, one who heroically labored overtime to kill more animals…

— James Dale Davidson