Tasha Nagel

“While it's possible that this happened because an enterprising hunter-gatherer ancestor of ours woke up one day and said 'I am going to make friends with a wolf and he will be a Very Good Boy,' it's more likely that dogs were (at the start, at least) basically self-domesticating.”
― Tom Phillips, Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up

“Everybody imitates before they can innovate.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear