Easter island Quote by Judith D. Schwartz

“In Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, geomorphologist David Montgomery offers numerous cautionary tales of kingdoms, cultures, and empires that squandered their soil and found…

— Judith D. Schwartz

“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 stress of farming had far-reaching consequences. It was the foundation of large-scale political and social systems. Sadly, the diligent peasants almost never achieved…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The peasants who had more land or livestock than others were the first to lose what they had. A”

— Timothy Snyder

“The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization- agriculture.”

— Frank Herbert

“In many cases, this doomed the refugees to starvation. Farmers, therefore, tended to stay put and fight to the bitter end. 12. Tribal warfare…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In spite of the land's natural drawbacks, they turned Sumer into a veritable Garden of Eden and developed what was probably the first high…

— Samuel Noah Kramer

Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of…

— William E. Rees

“These people came into the world and left it bound to their soil, proliferating on their own dung-hills with slow deliberation like the uncomplicated…

— Émile Zola

“Agriculture is the source of civilization, and”

— Sarah Ballantyne

“scholars agree that agriculture sprang up in other parts of the world not by the action of Middle Eastern farmers exporting their revolution but…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts follow. The…

— Daniel Webster