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Tears of Amber by Sofía Segovia

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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their ...more

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“It’s been said that no two species are more alike than wolves and humans. If you watch wolves not just in all their beauty and adaptability but in all their brutality, it’s hard to escape that conclusion. Living as we do in family packs, fending off the human wolves among us, managing the wolves within us, we can easily recognize in real wolves their social dilemmas and their status quests. No wonder Native Americans saw wolves as a sibling spirit.”
― Carl Safina, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel

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“Animals under early domestication received shelter, a diet altered by agriculture, and protection from predators through relative confinement. This reduced their sensory needs, facilitating further domestication. As our domesticated animals settled in for a life of reduced activity and stimulation, so did humans. As people provided safer, more sedentary conditions for their livestock, they did the same for themselves. The confinement was mutual. By moving out of nature and settling onto farms, we became in a real sense just another farm animal.”
― Carl Safina, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel

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“Caltech brain researcher John Allman says that through agriculture and other ways of reducing daily hazards of existence, humans domesticated themselves. We now depend on others to provide food and our shelter. We’re a lot like poodles in that regard.”
― Carl Safina, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel

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“Darwin coined the term “natural selection” because he was comparing the mechanics of what happens in nature with the artificial selection applied in raising livestock. But nature doesn’t really select; it filters. The environment works as a filter, and as the environment changes, it filters differently. The point is: as the pressures change, we remain a work in progress. Look at the evolving creature in the mirror. Realize that we’ve got a ways to go before we’re universally as good to one another, or as much fun with one another, as are bonobos.”
― Carl Safina, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel

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