Quotes by Village Life Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture. Alan D. Eames village-life agriculture beer Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it. Henry David Thoreau wilderness village-life forests I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked. Roger Hilsman village-life done war Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can be rationally directed towards our species goal: Space Migration, which in turn offers the only way to re-attain individual freedom of space-time and the small-group social structures which obviously best suit our nervous systems. It is another paradox of neuro-genetics that only in space habitats can humanity return to the village life and pastoral style for which we all long. Timothy Leary village-life space moon