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Permalink Reply by NoSacredCow on March 26, 2010 at 12:27pm

When I asked my cat Stella if she wanted to go outside her response was, "Mreow"

Permalink Reply by zoolady on March 27, 2010 at 8:27pm

"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 tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves.

And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man.

In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.

They are not brethren; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth."

Henry Beston
"The Outermost House"

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on March 27, 2010 at 8:46pm

Thanks. That is such a wonderful quote.

Permalink Reply by Sydni Moser on April 18, 2010 at 5:50pm

That quote was perfect Zoolady. Excellent choice. Thanks.

Permalink Reply by zoolady on March 27, 2010 at 9:03pm

Here's another one...

In the end, we will save that which we love
we will love that which we understand
we will understand what we have been taught.

This was said by a wise African fellow named Baba Gioum (or Dioum, depending on the reference you find) It's the bedrock philosophy of every zoo educator I know.

Permalink Reply by Sydni Moser on April 18, 2010 at 5:47pm

"If all the insects disappeared, life on earth as we know it would disappear within 50 years. If human beings disappeared, life on earth as we know it would FLOURISH."
- Jonas Salk

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on April 18, 2010 at 6:25pm

So true. Thanks. *sigh*