Kibroth-hattaavah

"The horse, the cat, the bull, even the ass, are usually taller, and all of them have a more robust constitution, more vigor, more strength, and more courage in the forests than in our homes. They lose half of these advantages in becoming domesticated; it might be said that all our efforts at feeding them and treating them well only end in their degeneration. it is the same for man himself. In becoming habituated to the ways of society and a salve, he becomes weak, fearful, and servile; his soft and effeminate lifestyle completes the enervation of both his strength and his courage." 

--Rousseau--Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

FIGURE 1: THE SUBURB

FIGURE 2: THE STAPLE

Numbers 11:31-34 (NIV, ©2011)

 ³¹ Now a wind went out from the LORD and drove quail in from the sea. It scattered them up to two cubits deep all around the camp, as far as a day’s walk in any direction. ³² All that day and night and all the next day the people went out and gathered quail. No one gathered less than ten homers.Then they spread them out all around the camp. ³³ But while the meat was still between their teeth and before it could be consumed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and he struck them with a severe plague. ³⁴Therefore the place was named Kibroth Hattaavah,because there they buried the people who had craved other food.