Civilization Quote by Richard Dawkins

In 10000 BC, all human beings were hunter-gatherers; by 1500 AD, 1 percent were hunter-gatherers. Less than .001 percent of people are hunter-gatherers today.

— Robyn Davidson

Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being a few…

— Johan Rockstrom

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.

— Bertrand Russell

Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“It’s important to keep in mind that when viewed against the full scale of our species’ existence, ten thousand years is but a brief…

— Christopher Ryan

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

— Howard Rheingold

“Ten thousand years ago, humans plus their pets and livestock accounted for about 0.1% of the terrestrial vertebrate biomass inhabiting the earth; we now…

— Daniel J. Levitin

“Timeline of History Years Before the Present 13.5 billion Matter and energy appear. Beginning of physics. Atoms and molecules appear. Beginning of chemistry. 4.5…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem. From the…

— Gao Xingjian

“The last 10,000 to 20,000 years have witnessed a period of dramatic growth in human civilization. Indeed, our growth during this time is unique…

— Heidi Cullen

In prehistoric times, Homo sapiens was deeply endangered. Early humans were less fleet of foot, with fewer natural weapons and less well-honed senses than…

— Robert Winston