Tuscany Quotes

“Archaeologists believe that wine-making began in Georgia and northern Persia some time between 6000 BC and 5000 BC.”
― Alistair Moffat, Tuscany: A History

“And with plant species the proportion which has been cultivated is even smaller. From 200,000 higher plant species, only 100 or so are grown for food. And almost all of these were first tended or cultivated in the fourth millennium BC in Europe.”
― Alistair Moffat, Tuscany: A History

“Farmers have been extremely conservative. Throughout the world there are 148 species of large animals and yet only fourteen of these have been domesticated as farm animals, grown for meat, milk or wool, or all three, or used to supply muscle-power to pull carts, ploughs or carry people.”
― Alistair Moffat, Tuscany: A History