Music and symbols, they're older than human race. Prehuman…

There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest…

— Anonymous

What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's worst folly,…

— Tom Robbins

WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Researches still don't have an explanation for the differnece between the sizes of dogs' and wolves' brains - or for why every species of…

— Virginia Morell

“A behavior has occurred that is good, bad, or ambiguous. How have cultural factors stretching back to the origins of humans contributed to that…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“It is also more than likely that women invented that most fundamental of all material technologies, without which civilization could not have evolved: the…

— Riane Eisler

“The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage'…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native wild mammal…

— Jared Diamond

“There is a tendency to oversimplify the issue of spay/neuter and to promote the essential benefits without recognizing that our animals do suffer some…

— Jessica Pierce

In translation studies we talk about domestication - translation styles that make something familiar - or estrangement - translation styles that make something radically…

— Elliott Colla

“For several thousand years man has been in contact with animals whose character and habits have been deformed by domestication. He has ended by…

— Hans Brick

“The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source…

— Edward Jenner

“The bee is domesticated but not tamed.”

— William Longgood

“Human nature has been landscaped, replanted, weeded, fertilized, fenced off, seeded, and irrigated as intensively as any garden or seaside golf course. Human beings…

— Christopher Ryan