Nature Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“Estimates are that the hunter-gatherers who were all but wiped out by the agricultural revolution numbered around 2 million 12,000 years ago. Agriculture spread…

— Adam Rutherford

“As late as AD 1400, the vast majority of farmers, along with their plants and animals, clustered together in an area of just 11…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

— Howard Rheingold

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 earth’s surface measures about 200 million square miles, of which 60 million is land. As late as AD 1400, the vast majority of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

“how the foragers completely reshaped the ecology of our planet long before the first agricultural village was built. The wandering bands of storytelling Sapiens…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

— Arthur Keith

There were three classes of inhabitants who either frequent or inhabit the country which we had now entered: first, the loggers, who, for a…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The human population is too large, and the earth too small, to sustain us in the ways our ancestors lived. Most of the land…

— Nina Fedoroff