Agriculture Quote by Jacob Bronowski

Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and wandering shepherd,…

— Edward Everett

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

— Charles Darwin

“Cyclical time already dominates the experience of nomadic populations because they find the same conditions repeated at every moment of their journey: Hegel notes…

— Debord

“ever and again we find some leader or some tribe amidst the disorder of free and independent nomads, powerful enough to force a sort…

— H.G. Wells

“With the advent of farming, human horizons expanded.”

— James Dale Davidson

Man must conquer nature.

— Mao Zedong

It takes many steppingstones, you know, for a man to rise. None can do it unaided

— Joseph Bonanno

“The change from the categories of hunter-gatherers to pastoralism to agriculture involved using a decreasing area of land, but an increasingly more intensive use…

— Romila Thapar

“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

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

— Arthur Keith

As a farmer, man himself became closely attached to the landscape, firmly rooted to the soil that supported him. At times the soil seemed…

— Charles Kellogg

Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest…

— Ludwig von Mises