“When the puppy licked my hand, we all knew he was the one for us”

“We could be having a good or a bad day and Bear would give you a warm greeting that could melt your heart”

“Another item that appeared in the backyard was rabbits. Bear would chase them away.”

“Be kind to all pets and animals because they will be kind back to you.”

“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”

“I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived...”

“We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, ki...”

“Even the Middle Ages, which condemned and punished animals in due form, was in this way much closer to them than we are. They held them to be guilty: which was a way of honoring them. We take them ...”

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”

“Killing or eating animals is an act of beasts. Stirs within the devil. Sorry. It spurs evil. Thus is truth - at least the metaphysical.”

“If you can cull an animal, or kill a human , and sleep well, does not mean you are any more well than a sick animal.”