Domestication Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire… — Carl Sagan
And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer… — William S. Burroughs
Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the… — Hans Zinsser
It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful husband.....but… — Isabella Beeton
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the… — Max Lerner
Because humans, in effect, created dogs through domestication, the canine mind reflects back to us how we see ourselves through the eyes, ears, and noses… — Gregory Berns
We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace… — John Zerzan
Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of… — Allan Bloom
Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native wild mammal species,… — Jared Diamond
When women hear those words, an old, old memory is stirred and brought back to life. The memory is of our absolute, undeniable, and irrevocable… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication. — Ambrose Bierce
Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Why do more than 40 percent of Americans think that the Universe began after the domestication of the dog? — Richard Dawkins
What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-have proved suitable for domestication. There still are no domestic… — Jared Diamond
Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in… — Norm Dicks
The greatest friend of the soul is the unknown. Yet we are afraid of the unknown because it lies outside our vision and our control.… — John O'Donohue
I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. [â€¦] I wish to speak to and for… — Kenneth Rexroth

Who Wrote These Domestication Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 18 Domestication Quotes as follows: