Plants and animals Quote by James C. Scott

“Human nature has been landscaped, replanted, weeded, fertilized, fenced off, seeded, and irrigated as intensively as any garden or seaside golf course. Human beings…

— Christopher Ryan

“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

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

“offers numerous cautionary tales of kingdoms, cultures, and empires that squandered their soil and found themselves with nothing left to live on. From the…

— Judith D. Schwartz

“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

“The idea of property emerged as an inevitable consequence of farming.”

— James Dale Davidson

“They also carried on commerce with other nations. All this clearly shows, as Heer has remarked, that they had at this early age progressed…

— Charles Darwin

“This completely changed their way of life. We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us. The word ‘domesticate’ comes from the Latin domus, which…

— Yuval Noah Harari

And if we ask what are the cultural resources that can inform and sustain a proper creaturely and stewardly awareness of the lives in…

— Wendell Berry

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

— Richard Leakey

“Wherever farming took root, violence emerged as a more important feature of social life.”

— James Dale Davidson

“We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us. The word ‘domesticate’ comes from the Latin ‘domus’, which means ‘house’. Who’s the one living in…

— Yuval Noah Harari