Analysis Quote by Will Durant

“Agriculture is the source of civilization, and”

— Sarah Ballantyne

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

— Nina Fedoroff

Civilization is a perishable commodity.

— Helen Clark MacInnes

Once you become an elaborate and well-developed culture, anything from Rome or the Etruscans, for that matter, the food starts to become a representation…

— Mario Batali

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

— Norman Borlaug

“In the disturbances caused by scarcity of food, the mob goes in search of bread, and the means it employs is generally to wreck…

— José Ortega y Gasset

Food is a lens for culture.

— Dana Goodyear

I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the…

— Angela Davis

“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

“We need to stop viewing our food as an industrial project and renew our view of it as a natural sustaining force.”

— Bill Bowling

We kind of know that food is necessary to survive. But our ways of connecting with food have been, in many ways, taken over…

— Raj Patel

We have to grow our food differently because industrial farming will soon end. That means growing more food locally on smaller farms with more…

— James Howard Kunstler