Revolution Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions. Yet”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Rather than heralding a new era of easy living, the Agricultural Revolution left farmers with lives generally more difficult and less satisfying than those…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“the Agricultural Revolution was a terrible catastrophe.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“less in danger of starvation and disease. The Agricultural Revolution certainly enlarged the sum total of food at the disposal of humankind, but the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The average farmer worked harder than the average forager, and got a worse diet in return. The Agricultural Revolution was history’s biggest fraud.2”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Agriculture is an honorable way to become poor”

— Ken Follett

“in a short essay I wrote in 1991, Gardening As Agriculture. In that essay I asserted that gardening should be recognized as a serious…

— Peter Bane

“That one American farmer can now feed himself and fifty-six other people may be, within the narrow view of the specialist, a triumph of…

— Wendell Berry

“Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.”

— Richard Manning

“Scholars once proclaimed that the agricultural revolution was a great leap forward for humanity. They told a tale of progress fuelled by human brain…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never…

— Jared Diamond