All Life Is Connected

“If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.” Chief Seattle of the Suquamish Tribe; letter to President Franklin Pierce, the 14th President of …

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When I look into the eyes of an animal

When I look into the eyes of an animal, I do not see an animal. I see a living being. I see a friend. I feel a soul. ~Anthony Douglas Williams

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals.

"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their …

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