Advantage Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was only with the rise of capitalism and the need for workers to be freer, more mobile, and prosperous, that societies were able…

— Michael Shellenberger

Those poor farmers who came up, that day, to defend their native soil, acted from the simplest of instincts. Theydid not know it was…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the…

— Aldo Leopold

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

Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore…

— Karl Marx

“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

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

— Timothy Snyder

“Over a long time, the coming and passing of several generations, the old farm had settled into its patterns and cycles of work -…

— Wendell Berry

“After a few generations of warfare, though, the fanatics were either killed along with their backups, or were persuaded to modify their positions.  Most…

— Walter Jon Williams

I think the nomads really give us inspiration about how we can live in harmony with our environment.

— Tim Cope