Jess’s Reviews > Venomous Lumpsucker > Status Update

But now she felt that a human being should find as much torture and paradox in their relationship with animals as the most overwrought Catholic found in their relationship with God (the other great tolerator of one-sided conversations).

The diversity of life on earth was (as far as anyone knew) the most majestic thing in the universe, and human beings were (as far as anyone knew) the only living things with the capacity to appreciate that majesty, and yet human beings were also the ones who were stamping that majesty out, not deliberately but carelessly, incidentally, leaving nothing behind…