All night Quote by Dave Barry

“The dog was the first animal domesticated by Homo sapiens, and this occurred before the Agricultural Revolution.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there…

— Jared Diamond

“Domestication is a variation of the process of evolution, where the selector has been not just natural forces but human ones, eventually intent on…

— Alexandra Horowitz

“Domestic dogs are essentially wolf puppies that have grown up physically, but not reached emotional maturity. That’s why many women prepare for life with…

— Simon Whaley

I subscribe to the theory that Mankind never domesticated any animal. They came in from the cold and looked cute until they were fed.

— David Beard

“In such prototribal societies, individuals who found it harder to play along, to restrain their antisocial impulses, and to conform to the most important…

— Jonathan Haidt

“The first domesticated animal was the scapegoat.”

— Yanko Tsvetkov

It did not take Man long-probably not more than a hundred centuries-to discover that all the animals except the dog were impossible around the…

— James Thurber

I found it curious that people kept animals for companionship and not food. When I'd asked Mama Oaks when she planned to cook the…

— Ann Aguirre

The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“defines domestication as “the human creation of a new form of plant or animal—one that is identifiably different from its wild ancestors and extant…

— David Christian

“Human beings have been under cultivation longer than we’ve been cultivating anything else. Our cultures domesticate us for obscure purposes, nurturing and encouraging certain…

— Christopher Ryan