[dayjaby]

Not sure why this is being downvoted. Alexander von Humboldt did a similar statement in his "Buch der Begegnungen" where he compares and finds cultures from tropical areas to be more "lazy" as all the fruits just grow on their own without any human involved.

[foogazi]

For small settlements sure but not for civilizations: both Aztec and Incas had to invent ways to increase farm output and were still beholden to crops

North American cultures in harsher conditions were nomadic herders