Top Uncultivated Quotes

We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.

We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Tags: animal, animals, anthropocentric, anthropocentrism, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, barbarian, barbaric

It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage st...

It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage st...

Thomas Jefferson

Tags: analogy, education, estimable, fruit, improvement, savage, science, uncultivated, virtue, worth