What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being. — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
“Music and symbols, they're older than human race. Prehuman beings used them to teach early mankind.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“In addition to selecting for infantile physical features in many of our pet breeds, we have carefully cultivated an infant-like dependency in… — Charles Danten Copy Share Image
“defines domestication as “the human creation of a new form of plant or animal—one that is identifiably different from its wild ancestors… — David Christian Copy Share Image
Because humans, in effect, created dogs through domestication, the canine mind reflects back to us how we see ourselves through the eyes,… — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-have proved suitable for domestication. There still… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“The domestication of God is a curse on preaching in our day. We need to recover reality and the language of majesty… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian).… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult… — Norm Dicks Copy Share Image
“In less than ten thousand years, domestication has increased the weight of wool grown by sheep from less than one kilogram of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Perhaps if zoologists would contemplate the wide variations presented by many plants of indubitably one and the same species, and the still… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Researches still don't have an explanation for the differnece between the sizes of dogs' and wolves' brains - or for why every… — Virginia Morell Copy Share Image
“Human nature has been landscaped, replanted, weeded, fertilized, fenced off, seeded, and irrigated as intensively as any garden or seaside golf course.… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“Pets, he says, are trapped in a state from which there is no escape. “Domestication has essentially created a mentally disabled child… — David Grimm Copy Share Image
“Human beings have been under cultivation longer than we’ve been cultivating anything else. Our cultures domesticate us for obscure purposes, nurturing and… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
In translation studies we talk about domestication - translation styles that make something familiar - or estrangement - translation styles that make… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“The fundamental metaphor of National Socialism as it related to the world around it was the garden, not the wild forest. One… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“It is also more than likely that women invented that most fundamental of all material technologies, without which civilization could not have… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
“Chen pointed to the cub. "There's your brute." Then he pointed to the pups. "And there's your domestication. For the most part,… — Jiang Rong Copy Share Image
“The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a… — Edward Jenner Copy Share Image
“In such prototribal societies, individuals who found it harder to play along, to restrain their antisocial impulses, and to conform to the… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“For several thousand years man has been in contact with animals whose character and habits have been deformed by domestication. He has… — Hans Brick Copy Share Image
“There is a tendency to oversimplify the issue of spay/neuter and to promote the essential benefits without recognizing that our animals do… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“A behavior has occurred that is good, bad, or ambiguous. How have cultural factors stretching back to the origins of humans contributed… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Modern life has domesticated us. We wake to alarms, live by schedules, and often feel disconnected from the natural rhythms that sustained… — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“Domestication is a variation of the process of evolution, where the selector has been not just natural forces but human ones, eventually… — Alexandra Horowitz Copy Share Image
