Animals Quote by David Beard

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

The first animals to be successfully domesticated were dogs, which were a big help because they would bark all night and fetch thrown sticks,…

— Dave Barry

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons…

— Anonymous

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

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

— Ben Whishaw

My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.

— Richard Leakey

Domesticated animals such as dogs and cats are vulnerable and entirely dependent on us for all of their needs. They live very unnatural lives…

— Gary L. Francione

There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

— Mark Twain

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…

— Jared Diamond

“Thousands of years ago, when kitties first domesticated humans, we did it so that someone would scratch our butts.”

— Didjeradoo Jeremy Greenberg