1. When farmers give up trying to earn a living from farming or herding, trees simply move in. 当农民放弃靠种田或放牧来维持生计，树木就生长起来了。
2. Then, about 7000 B.C., within the space of a few generations, they switched abruptly to herding domesticated goats and sheep and to growing einkorn, pulses, and other cereal grasses. 后来，大约在公元前7000年，在几代人的时间里，他们突然转向放牧家养的山羊和绵羊，转而种植单粒小麦、豆类和其他谷类牧草。
3. The robots are not limited to herding and monitoring livestock. 这些机器人并非仅能用于放牧和监控牲畜。
4. Their fungus farming and aphid herding crafts are sophisticated when compared to the agricultural skills of humans five thousand years ago but have been totally overtaken by modem human agribusiness. 与五千年前人类的农业技术相比，他们的菌类种植和蚜虫养殖技术非常复杂，但已经完全被现代人类的企业化农业所超越。
5. Managing programmers is like herding cats. — unknown. 管理程序员就像是在放养一群猫。
