Animals Quote by William Longgood

“Modern life has domesticated us. We wake to alarms, live by schedules, and often feel disconnected from the natural rhythms that sustained our ancestors…

— Ken Breniman

“The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source…

— Edward Jenner

It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful…

— Isabella Beeton

“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

If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's worst folly,…

— Tom Robbins

WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Researches still don't have an explanation for the differnece between the sizes of dogs' and wolves' brains - or for why every species of…

— Virginia Morell

“A behavior has occurred that is good, bad, or ambiguous. How have cultural factors stretching back to the origins of humans contributed to that…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“It is also more than likely that women invented that most fundamental of all material technologies, without which civilization could not have evolved: the…

— Riane Eisler

“The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage'…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native wild mammal…

— Jared Diamond

“There is a tendency to oversimplify the issue of spay/neuter and to promote the essential benefits without recognizing that our animals do suffer some…

— Jessica Pierce