Yuval Noah Harari Quotes

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.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

You can draw the character out of pets, and you can make them your friends, but they are animals, and they have to be allowed to live the lives of animals.

A pig is a pig no matter whose pigpen it's in.

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

They've made it a felon to drive from Florida to Louisiana with any fighting birds, so I've had to get rid of most of my chickens. I only got about a hundred left now, which I just keep for colour and breeding. I love those birds as much as anything.

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

I was a psych major in college and I actually owned two white lab rats. I had to train them and I took them home so that's just kind of missing for me.

Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.

Our main deal is pastured livestock. So we have beef cattle, pigs, turkeys, laying chickens, meat chickens, rabbit, lamb and ducks - egg-layer ducks.

Of course 'we humans' have a funny relationship with the beings with whom we share our planet. We eat them, we care for them, we admire them, we use them.

'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.'

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

I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.

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

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.

I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.

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

I love animals, but I don't really like riding animals. Like, I don't love being on a horse - it's just not my thing.

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

I'm animal obsessed! I basically have a farm in my house.

Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

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