That Hobbes' quote is taken out of context, though - that's Ch. 13 from Leviathan, and he is most definitely not romanticizing archaic means of living. He says it right there in the quote you provide: man's life is 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short' because he will be driven to compete with others for the things he wants and needs; as a result, Hobbes argues that a government is needed to step in and 'over-awe' men in order to establish order and from chaos, cultivate a functioning society. What you quoted isn't even half of his sentence, either. I'll provide the previous sentence so that the context is clear. The full sentence (which I've bolded) reads as follows:
"Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time or war where every man is enemy to every man, the same is consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
In other words, it's the men who are left to live by those archaic methods (that you are correct in claiming many writers romanticize) will experience "no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death" and his resulting life will be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short"...the exact opposite of what you are presenting that (half of a) quote as meaning.
TL/DR: Your portion of a quote from Thomas Hobbes has been taken dramatically out of context to support your claim, which is the opposite of the claim Hobbes makes in that quote.