Top 18 Quotes About Hunters And Gatherers
#1. O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#2. We used to be hunter-gatherers, now we're shopper-borrowers.
Robin Williams
#3. We are aware that many national farm organizations are putting forth various plans to provide both short- and long-term relief to our nation's agricultural producers. While we believe long-term solutions are essential, the current situation demands a more immediate response.
Mel Carnahan
#4. Genetically, we are essentially the same creatures as we were at the beginning. We are still hunters and gatherers.
Richard Louv
#5. It is not only he who speaks contrary to what he knows who lies, but even more he who speaks contrary to what he does not know
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. What we're experiencing is, in a metaphorical sense, a reversal of the early trajectory of civilization: we are evolving from being cultivators of personal knowledge to being hunters and gatherers in the electronic data forest.
Nicholas Carr
#7. Especially in this industry, women challenge men much more now because we're saying, 'We can do it, too.'
Regina King
#8. Unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought - frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or
F Scott Fitzgerald
#9. We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers.
Eddie Izzard
#10. We are inclined to think of hunters and gatherers as poor because they don't have anything; perhaps better to think of them for that reason as free.
Marshall Sahlins
#11. The greatest strength you can have is to know your own strengths. You've got to figure out what you're good at and make the most of it.
Cristina Alger
#13. Picture this," said Magnus. "Me with a little monkey friend. I could teach him tricks. I could dress him in a cunning jacket. He could look just like me! But more monkey-shaped.
Cassandra Clare
#14. In this primitive and abject state [of hunters and gatherers], which ill deserves the name of society, the human brute, without arts or laws, almost without sense or language, is poorly distinguished from the rest of the animal creation.
Edward Gibbon
#15. We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. Now, if they simply thaw and wander around, it's not a problem, but if they find a leader - a Captain Caveman, if you will - we'll be facing an even more serious problem.
John Hodgman
#16. Human beings thrive on action. Stagnation does not wear well with us. We are said to have our origins as hunter-gatherers. We run and we chase. We are problem-solvers. We must be continuously tested and we continuously test ourselves. And it will not end until our lives end because of life itself.
Art Buchwald
#17. He seems an unlikely companion for a woman like Edie Banister, but the world, Daniel once observed, is a great honeycombed thing composed of separated mysteries.
Nick Harkaway
#18. Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being a few hunters and gatherers to become more sedentary agriculture-based civilizations, which then moved us to the current populated modern era.
Johan Rockstrom
