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Rather than heralding a new era of easy living, the Agricultural Revolution left farmers with lives generally more difficult and less satisfying than those of foragers. Hunter-gatherers spent their time in more stimulating and varied ways, ...more
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Verlyn Klinkenborg
“Then I remember it’s January, a month when only the potatoes are optimistic about warmer weather.”
Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Rural Life

Yuval Noah Harari
“Scholars of religion have a name for this simultaneous avowal of different and even contradictory ideas and the combination of rituals and practices taken from different sources. It’s called syncretism. Syncretism might, in fact, be the single great world religion.”
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Verlyn Klinkenborg
“And beyond the literal landscape—the one that has been tilled and planted or logged or fenced or simply let alone—there is the ideal landscape that lives only in the mind. Every day you explore the difference between the two, knowing that you can see what no one else can.”
Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Rural Life

Yuval Noah Harari
“During World War Two, BBC News was broadcast to Nazi-occupied Europe. Each news programme opened with a live broadcast of Big Ben tolling the hour – the magical sound of freedom. Ingenious German physicists found a way to determine the weather conditions in London based on tiny differences in the tone of the broadcast ding-dongs. This information offered invaluable help to the Luftwaffe. When the British Secret Service discovered this, they replaced the live broadcast with a set recording of the famous clock.”
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari
“The average Christian believes in the monotheist God, but also in the dualist Devil, in polytheist saints, and in animist ghosts.”
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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