In the Judeo-Christian tradition, Noah is a biblical figure who followed God’s prompting and built a massive ark to save the planet’s animals from a global flood. Harari discusses Noah to say that humanity’s track record with causing extinctions makes humans more like a destructive human flood than like the benevolent Noah.
Noah Quotes in Sapiens
The Sapiens quotes below are all either spoken by Noah or refer to Noah. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 4
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If things continue at the present pace, it is likely that whales, sharks, tuna and dolphins will follow the diprotodons, ground sloths and mammoths to oblivion. Among all the world’s large creatures, the only survivors of the human food will be humans themselves, and the farmyard animals that serve as galley slaves in Noah Ark.
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