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“We like to romanticize the wild, raw, majestic beauty of nature. But when you take a closer look, nature is really just a giant fuckfest. That beautiful bird chirping? It's a mating call. That pret...”
“I think of two landscapes- one outside the self, the other within. The external landscape is the one we see-not only the line and color of the land and its shading at different times of the day, bu...”
“If nothing else, school teaches that there is an answer to every question; only in the real world do young people discover that many aspects of life are uncertain, mysterious, and even unknowable. ...”
“The truly wise are meek. Yet being small and meek do not make one weak. Arming oneself with true knowledge generates strong confidence and a bold spirit that makes you a lion of God. The Creator do...”
“Fighting is found everywhere in the animal kingdom and nowhere so much as among human animals. Animals fight to get what they want--food, sex, territory, control, etc.--because there are other anim...”
“To horses, everyday is a new day to survive. It's a natural instinct. They don't think of the past or the future, only the present. So in terms of trying to teach your horse or build a special bond...”
“They said the shape-shifters fucked with the enthusiasm of animalsif they didn't devour you with the enthusiasm of one first.”
“How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it....”
“People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy.”
“Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them.”
“When I connect with the animals around me, I connect with their soul. I believe where there is a soul, there is a journey and a purpose.”
“Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.”
“The world is a wide place where we stumble like children learning to walk. The world is a bright mosaic where we learn like children to see, where our little blurry eyes strive greedily to take in ...”
“There had been a quarrel, she had been hurt, had wept. Now it was over; now she sat still and waited. Life would go on. As with children. As with animals. If only you did not talk, did not make sim...”
“One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.”
“I have found that sometimes when a person gives up on 'humankind' they can often find trust and love in animal kind. Andr Chevalier”
“Animals in childrens literature always have a soul life because children perceive animals as having souls.”
“History has shown us time and time again that you don't have to know someone to love them with all your heart.”
“I don't think Tera is capable of working with you by her own choice, no matter how much grass you pull for her, no matter how much you brush her. I think she's more like ... a three or four-year-ol...”
“What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday?”
