History Quote by Jared Diamond

“Rather than heralding a new era of easy living, the Agricultural Revolution left farmers with lives generally more difficult and less satisfying than those…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“(Most jobs I've had have been variations on hunter-gatherer and farmer. I was one of the first to say "Hey, if we grow our…

— Gene Doucette

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

“I think Farmer taps into a universal anxiety and also into a fundamental place in some troubled consciences, into what he calls "ambivalence," the…

— Tracy Kidder

It's an attitude of superiority. We are superior to the rest of life. The Book of Genesis says: 'Increase and multiply and have dominion…

— W. S. Merwin

“I tell you the truth - for a long, long time these farmers have worked like horses and cattle; and like horses and cattle…

— Shusaku Endo

“We are inclined to think of hunters and gatherers as poor because they don't have anything; perhaps better to think of them for that…

— Marshall Sahlins

“I may have seemed like things quieted down a bit once we all figured out how to farm, because farming begets society and society…

— Gene Doucette

“We have let the factory farm replace farming for the same reasons our cultures have relegated minorities to being second-class members of society and…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“The average farmer worked harder than the average forager, and got a worse diet in return. The Agricultural Revolution was history’s biggest fraud.2”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Nor could wheat offer security against human violence. The early farmers were at least as violent as their forager ancestors, if not more”

— Yuval Noah Harari