Animal Quote by John Livingston, from "Rogue Primate: An Investigation Into Human Domestication

“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

“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

“Our cultures domesticate us for obscure purposes, nurturing and encouraging certain aspects of our behavior and tendencies while seeking to eliminate those that might…

— Christopher Ryan

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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

“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

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

— Richard Leakey

This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Control creates domesticated animals. The purpose of society is to inspire humanity, not tame them”

— Devdutt Pattanaik

“In fact, the proposition that man’s species nature is estranged from him means that one man is estranged from the other, as each of…

— Karl Marx

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

“There are other unimportant things about us and our world, which are doubtless the actions of civilised species everywhere. We mate for life -…

— Terence Park