-300,000 years of homo sapiens existence, plus millions of years of hominoids preceding that.  The story is still unfolding.  But we have now alienated ourselves from the natural world.

-Technology is just saving problems we created with our technology, plus creating new harms.

-Tower of Babel - illustrative of man's desire to become gods, to be the creators.  Now we want to create our own life forms.

-We say something's unsustainable but we keep on doing it.  No one wants to look at the answer to the problem.

-Daniel started out looking for the right diet.  Saw that farming is what destroys civilizations because it destroys the land base.   Sees hunting/gathering as the healthiest lifestyle, and it can be done today with positive health outcomes.

-Having adventures in the service of obtaining food, while getting movement, fresh air, sunlight, forest bathing, exposure to microbiota, and social interaction.

-Differences in personality between foragers, hunters, and mushroom gatherers.  Get a more comprehensive view of being on the planet with a balance of those activities.  We've been hunting 3.5 million years.  Seeing mortality on a regular basis grounds you, gives awareness of the fragility of organisms.

-All coffee is imported.  Local food ends where coffee begins.  Yaupon is the only native North American plant that contains caffeine.  When Ceylon Tea Company wanted to imported tea from China, they created a demand for tea by smearing yaupon.

-Coffee is grown in fragile ecosystems and is responsible for deforestation and pollution of waterways.  Yaupon is in the Ilex genus and a sister to yerba mate and guayusa.  We can switch coffee consumption to a coffee substitute that grows in the US.  An indigenous caffeine source that is ecologically sustainable.