My world is full of life. I walk out into the world to  see, hear and experience life. Admittedly humans are not the first and foremost form of life I seek. As a human being living and working in society I have contact regularly with other humans, I do not need to seek that interaction. i do feel deep need to keep myself in contact and be aware of other forms of life. I have domesticated animals in my home and could not imagine a life without pets. I also daily must go out to hear birds sing, look to see the wonder of the amazing array of insects in their macro world and hope to glimpse the larger mammals living free and wild in the woodlands. I live in the midwest where farms are near and I see the animals we domesticate and raise for our own use.
Personally, I gave up eating mammals. I can not look into the eyes of a bovine and not see how like my canine family members. In hearing of species on the brink of extinction, be it rhinos or tigers, birds or the majestic Monarch and essential honey bee I fear  what future planet earth may have. Without the other life forms there is no life for humans

“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.”- Paul Farmer

 


The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures, but the fact that he can do wrong proves his inferiority to any creature that cannot'' t. Mark Twain

 


''Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.'' Albert Einstein

 Evolutionary biology is now uttering and seeking those forces that link us with all those that have being.  If we can discover the meaning in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may understand why it is for us not merely noise but a song of poetry and emotion.  ~Adrian Forsyth

 Hurt no living thing:
Ladybird, nor butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wing.
~Christina Georgina Rossetti

 Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?  ~Jean Paul Richter

Bless The Beasts And The Children
Bless the beasts and the children
For in this world they have no voice
They have no choice

Bless the beasts and the children
For the world can never be
The world they see

Light their way
When the darkness surrounds them
Give them love
Let it shine all around them

Bless the beasts and the children
Give them shelter from the storm
Keep them safe
Keep them warm -
Songwriters
DE VORZON, BARRY/BOTKIN, PERRY L

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.  ~St. Francis of Assisi

 The animals of the world exist for their own reasons.  They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.  ~Alice Walker

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird.  He was laying there and something struck me.  Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.  ~Marv Levy

The life spark in my eyes is in no way different than the life spark in the eyes of any other sentient being.  ~Michael Stepaniak

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.  ~William Ralph Inge



















From beasts we scorn as soulless,
In forest, field and den,
The cry goes up to witness
The soullessness of men.
~M. Frida Hartley

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.  ~Abraham Lincoln

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.  He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits.  Yet he is lord of all the animals.  ~George Orwell

Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.  And after I've finished "shooting," my unharmed victims are still around for others to enjoy.  I have developed a deep respect for animals.  I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.  ~Jimmy Stewart