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social evolution, he reasoned, always begins with hunters, then moves on to a stage of pastoralism, then farming, and only then finally passes to the contemporary stage of urban commercial civilization.45 Those who still remain hunters, shepherds or simple farmers are best understood as vestiges of our own previous stages of social development.
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
However, other naturopaths decisively disagree. The founder of naturopathy, Dr. Benedict Lust, called for "the elimination of ... habits such as ... meat eating." Similarly, Henry Lindlahr, M.D., whose work has been widely read in naturopathic colleges, defined naturopathy as favoring a "strict vegetarian diet."
Dean Ornish M.D. • The Food Revolution
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Parks are dead and artificial. Farms, when treated as private property, rob the people of their natural biological heritage-the countryside from which they came.
Christopher Alexander • A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
I am in general agreement with Eisler’s view expressed in The Chalice and the Blade and hope only to extend her argument by asking the following question: What factor maintained the equilibrium of the partnership societies of the Late Neolithic and then faded, setting the stage for the emergence of the evolutionarily maladaptive dominator model? In
... See moreTerence McKenna • Food of the Gods
According to totalitarian agriculture, cows may live but wolves must die. According to totalitarian agriculture, chickens may live but foxes must die. According to totalitarian agriculture, wheat may live but chinch bugs must die. Anything we eat may live, but anything that eats our food must die—and not merely on an ad hoc basis. Our posture is
... See moreDaniel Quinn • The Story of B (Ishmael Series Book 2)
Humans evolved as hunters and gatherers where we all worked for ourselves. It’s only at the beginning of agriculture we became more hierarchical.
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
all households perform essentially the same tasks of hunting, gathering, or small-scale farming.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
norm for our ancestors, those of us who came after seem to have inherited what biochemist C. Nicholas Hales and epidemiologist David J.P. Barker christened “thrifty genes,” good at conserving fat. We are all descended from survivors, and survivors were the chubby ones. “At