Amy Sterling
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“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”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“wheat, rice and potatoes. These plants domesticated Homo sapiens, rather than vice versa. Think”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“One man armed with the right word may do what an army of swordsmen cannot.”
― The Golden Fool
― The Golden Fool
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