“But what specifically interests me here is how the long-term re-formatting of the planet’s landscape, whereby the surface of the earth has slowly been made habitable almost solely for humans and the species they cultivate, began with something as small-scale—a field operation as micro-tactical and discrete—as pushing roots into the ground and then coming back a few days later to see how it’s all developed. Repeat this action for a hundred-thousand years, scaling it up each time, both mechanically and quantitatively, and what was once a lo-fi interaction with the forest has become an industrialized agriculture for an exponentially humanized earth.”
BLDGBLOG’s Geoff Manaugh wrote that, closing a post on agricultural evolution.
For better or worse, some little things turn big.
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