Beyond hunting and gathering

Agriculture wasn’t the result of innovations in hunting and gathering. Better chasing and foraging didn’t prompt thoughts of domestication.

It would have been away from those activities — during quiet times of observation, contemplation, and curiosity — when concepts of farming and trial cultivation were born.

When we stop running, then we can begin to imagine.

Sometimes it’s away from the work, when we sit still, that our ideas begin to blossom.