"Learning to domesticate the horse was a sort……" — David Christian
"Learning to domesticate the horse was a sort of energy revolution."
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12 Quotes by David Christian
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I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular…
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An egg is a beautiful, sophisticated thing that can create even more sophisticated things, such as chickens. And we know…
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Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals.
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I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part…
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Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within…
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Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world…
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Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This…
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I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a…
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We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity…
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All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.
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Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale…
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More Domesticate Quotes
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Dan Brister's book bears witness to the last fifteen years of this bureaucratic madness to tame the last vestige of…
— Doug Peacock
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Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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An artist must smash down the systems that domesticate the mind.
— Jean Giraud
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Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to…
— Pope Francis
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The fact is, Scripture is filled with divine actions that don't fit our human standards of logic or morality. But…
— Francis Chan
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When you tame and domesticate the divine it loses its danger and it's power to forgive you, make you happy,…
— John O'Donohue
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All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.
— John W. Gardner
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In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants'…
— Rachel Cusk
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It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator. We are an autodomesticated animal. We can now domesticate…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we…
— Gerry Spence
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