Anita

“Dominion does not mean domination. We hold dominion over animals only because of our powerful and ubiquitous intellect. Not because we are morally superior. Not because we have a "right" to exploit those who cannot defend themselves. Let us use our brain to move toward compassion and away from cruelty, to feel empathy rather than cold indifference, to feel animals' pain in our hearts.”
― Marc Bekoff, Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

“There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.”
― John Muir, The Wilderness World of John Muir

“I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.”
― Anne Lamott

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
― Jack Kerouac