Easy living Quote by 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

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

— 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

“...farming takes root in you and crowds out other endeavors, makes them seem paltry. Your acres become a world. And maybe you realize that…

— Kristin Kimball

“Once our ancestors began cultivating land for food, they were running on a wheel, but never fast enough. More land provides more food. And…

— Christopher Ryan

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

— Timothy Snyder

“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

“I was called up to do farmwork back in my days at elementary school, I always felt that I was contributing in some small…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“They call this place a farm — but no farmer could possibly make a living from it these days, no matter how hard he worked.”

— Alexander Key

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

— Richard Manning

“Then why didn’t humans abandon farming when the plan backfired? Partly because it took generations for the small changes to accumulate and transform society…

— Yuval Noah Harari