Breast Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“a mother’s breast gives warmth, food, protection against disease and a learning exercise in interactions.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“A breast is the best comforter, yet in western society it has been viewed merely as a conveyor of ‘feeds’.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“A mother’s breast is like an efficient pharmacist: it produces general disease preventing substances for everyday use and then makes up specific medicines to…

— Gabrielle Palmer

For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes,…

— Jared Diamond

I think a lot of things will be self-correcting, even in America. After all, human societies are essentially self-organizing emergent systems. The catch is,…

— James Howard Kunstler

I am fundamentally an anthropologist and a rationalist. What I say is that human societies are very different from what specialists call 'animal society'…

— Rene Girard

Its likely that a general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on the crisis,…

— Ed Ayres

Capacity of human societies both to absorb and to discard cultures is much underestimated.

— Norman Davies

“we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination.”

— Patricia Crone

Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.

— Octavia E. Butler

...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately…

— Vaclav Smil

Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on…

— Mortimer Adler