Gatherers Quotes

17 quotes by 17 authors

For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the fine, small details… — Janine Benyus
Human beings thrive on action. Stagnation does not wear well with us. We are said to have our origins as hunter-gatherers. We run and we… — Art Buchwald
We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. Now, if they simply thaw and wander around, it's not a… — John Hodgman
And if there come the singers, and the dancers and the flute players - buy of their gifts also. For they too are gatherers of… — Khalil Gibran
We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers. — Eddie Izzard
Beyond Bookchinâ€, David Watson, of Fifth Estate, argues that aboriginal society represents a viable Utopia. He quotes favourably the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins; â€œWe are inclined… — Marshall Sahlins
The earth community, the Life Community, is not the property of any one religion or group or part of the world; it is the Commons… — David Spangler
Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in the last couple… — Simon Barnes
We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information. — J.P. Rangaswami
It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was… — Calamity Jane
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was… — Robert Winston
If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it,… — Tom Hodgkinson
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 spread… — Jared Diamond
For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable and… — Richard Leakey
Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being a few hunters… — Johan Rockstrom
God through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior; found our hearts worthy enough to save, and to entrust us to spread the Gospel. Including handing… — Geraldine Vermaak

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