Jean-Henri Fabre (Librairie Ch. Delagrave (1913), page 242)History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the ploughed fields whereby we thrive; it knows the names of king's bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. That is the way of human folly.
An aphorism which should be more broadly known, particularly as fearmongers begin to attack the public going into election cycles. I thought I’d make an ironic motivational poster out of it.
Hat tip: Jeremy Cherfas’s excellent Eat This Podcast
Photo credit: poppy in wheat field flickr photo by Grey World shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license