Jared Diamond Quotes

And I like pygmy goats, because they're just lovely, and ducks.

I've got four dogs, eight chickens, 10 sheep and six pigs.

I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden.

We like horses and we like dogs and we like to be in the midst of agriculture.

The domesticated chicken is probably the most widespread bird in the annals of planet Earth. If you measure success in terms of numbers, chickens, cows and pigs are the most successful animals ever.

There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs.

When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.

I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.

It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.

We have some goats, some chickens, and we used to have pigs. There used to be two ostriches as well, but they were a little bit violent, so we had to give them away. When we were little, we used to play with the goats all the time. We each had our own little goat, and we'd go and run around with them.

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs, cows, and chickens. We really don't have an honest-to-goodness farm, more of a hobby farm.

I've got cattle on 4,000 acres about 100 miles east of Dallas, but I've also got another 65-acre ranch where I raise American miniature horses.

Indian films never show cows. When you go to India, the most noticeable thing is the cows. Everywhere you look, there's cows walking around! Just by introducing the idea of animals - livestock walking around - suddenly makes it more real.

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.

We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed.

I have four dogs, four horses, a cat, and a bunch of wild frogs.

I seldom meet with characters so inoffensive as my hens and chickings, or minds so well improved as my garden.

All presbyters, clerks, monks, converts, pilgrims, and peasants, when they are engaged in the labours of husbandry, together with their cattle in their ploughs, and the feed which they carry into the field, shall enjoy perfect security; and that all who molest tem, if they do not desist when they have been admonished, shall be excommunicated.

If I had a tit for every one of these pigs to suck at, they would still be my friend.

The circumstance of superior beauty is thought worthy of attention in the propagation of our horses, dogs, and other domestic animals; why not in that of man?

I've got kids, goats. My wife always wanted a donkey, so I bought her one.

When I was growing up, we had cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits, goats, chickens - a whole menagerie.

I haven't changed. My family and I live as we did in South Spain. I've had loud music, chickens, birds, and a bull in my backyard.