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No plant has been a continuous part of the human family longer than the hemp plant.
Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
Linen made from flax was the oldest woven textile. Woolen thread was invented only after spinners of flax and other plant fibers began to obtain the longer animal fibers that grew on mutant wool sheep.
David W. Anthony • The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
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Wheat did it by manipulating Homo sapiens to its advantage. This ape had been living a fairly comfortable life hunting and gathering until about 10,000 years ago, but then began to invest more and more effort in cultivating wheat. Within a couple of millennia, humans in many parts of the world were doing little from dawn to dusk other than taking
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Indépendamment de mes propres habitudes en la matière, je ne doute pas qu’une partie du destin de la race humaine, dans son amélioration progressive, consiste à cesser de manger des animaux, tout aussi sûrement que les tribus sauvages renoncèrent à s’entre-dévorer lorsqu’elles entrèrent en contact avec des civilisations plus évoluées.