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Wild Quotes by Jared Diamond
- Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to…
- 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,…
- But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it up over the…
- Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have…
- In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was…
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- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something… — James Cameron
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- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it… — Francis Bacon
- My story starts at sea, a perilous voyage to an unknown land. A shipwreck. The wild waters roar and heave. The brave… — William Shakespeare
- There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to… — Rumi