Gardening Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“wheat, rice and potatoes. These plants domesticated Homo sapiens, rather than vice versa. Think”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Even today, with all our advanced technologies, more than 90 per cent of the calories that feed humanity come from the handful of plants…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“This completely changed their way of life. We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us. The word ‘domesticate’ comes from the Latin domus, which…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us. The word ‘domesticate’ comes from the Latin ‘domus’, which means ‘house’. Who’s the one living in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley,…

— Bill Bryson

“Human beings have been under cultivation longer than we’ve been cultivating anything else. Our cultures domesticate us for obscure purposes, nurturing and encouraging certain…

— Christopher Ryan

“Human nature has been landscaped, replanted, weeded, fertilized, fenced off, seeded, and irrigated as intensively as any garden or seaside golf course. Human beings…

— Christopher Ryan

“Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley,…

— Bill Bryson

“Nor could wheat offer security against human violence. The early farmers were at least as violent as their forager ancestors, if not more”

— Yuval Noah Harari

The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats.

— Bill Bryson

“The dog was the first animal domesticated by Homo sapiens, and this occurred before the Agricultural Revolution.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Most meals that came from the forest were brought by the women – fish, mushrooms, crab, bamboo shoots, some kuccha or the other. The…

— Madhu Ramnath