Amy Sterling

“Law is organized Justice. Now”
― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

“wheat, rice and potatoes. These plants domesticated Homo sapiens, rather than vice versa. Think”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“The earth’s surface measures about 200 million square miles, of which 60 million is land. As late as AD 1400, the vast majority of farmers, along with their plants and animals, clustered together in an area of just 4.25 million square miles – 2 per cent of the planet’s surface.2 Everywhere else was too cold, too hot, too dry, too wet, or otherwise unsuited for cultivation. This minuscule 2 per cent of the earth’s surface constituted the stage on which history unfolded. People”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“scholars agree that agriculture sprang up in other parts of the world not by the action of Middle Eastern farmers exporting their revolution but entirely independently.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind