Hunter Gatherers Quotes

13 quotes by 13 authors

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
I do have a dominant shopping gene but, unlike a reasonable person, I never plan for what I need each season. I enjoy the thrill… — Iris Apfel
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
Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also… — Naveen Jain
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
People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies. — Helen Fisher
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
Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy, durable, hunter-gatherer bodies… — Christopher McDougall
It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more… — Bill Bryson
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

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