“HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants; none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.” HumansChildrenHuman BeingsAnimalColorPlantAncestor Book:The Temple of My Familiar Source: The Temple of My Familiar
“I have two Filipino nannies who have British passport and not me. I don't need British passport. When you were running around in an animal skin, my ancestors were building the pyramids.” NeedsTwoRunningAnimalBuildingSkinsBritishAncestorPyramidsPassportsFilipinoNannies Author:Mohamed Al-Fayed
“Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can be used to exclude deer and cattle from newly set trees. As the trees (apple, quince, plum, citrus, fig) age, and the brambles are shaded out, hoofed animals come to eat fallen fruit, and the mature trees (7 plus years old) are sufficiently hardy to withstand browsing. Our forest ancestors may well have followed some such sequences for orchard evolution, assisted by indigenous birds and mammals.” YearsWellsMayAgeYoungUsedAnimalTreeParticularEvolutionProtectBirdFruitForestsFallenRelatedApplesPlusMatureFarmsAncestorSequenceIndigenousDeerCattleHardyMammalsOrchardFigsPlumsBlackberriesFruit TreesBrowsingCitrusQuince Author:Bill Mollison
“The idea that humans could be related to ape-like ancestors and the rest of creation was considered subversive. If man was just an animal, then he doesn't live forever, he has no soul. And if men don't have a soul, then there's no afterlife. No heaven, no fiery deterrent of hell to keep people in line in this life. And if there's no fiery deterrent to keep people in line, "well then we might as well have hell on Earth!" the critics said.” PeopleIfsMenHumansWellsSaidIdeasSoulMightEarthHeavenLinesAnimalHellForeverCreationCriticsThis LifeRelatedAfterlifeAncestorApesLive ForeverFierySubversiveHell On EarthDeterrent Author:James Moore
“In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.” PeopleWayFeelsDoePastCultureAnimalWestHistorianAncestorPast LifeBiographers Author:Miriam Makeba
“There was an idea that God created man different from other animals, because man was rational and animals had drives and instincts. That idea of a rational man that was specially created went out the window when Darwin showed that we evolved from animal ancestors, that we have instincts, much as do animals, and that our instincts are very important. It was a much more sophisticated, nuanced, and rich view of the human mind.” MenMindHumansImportantIdeasDifferentAnimalViewsRichWindowInstinctRationalHuman MindAncestorSophisticated Author:Eric Kandel
“Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.” HumansHumanityGivenAnimalEmotionCrueltyAncestorHuman Emotions Author:Thomas Harris
“What is a totem? It is as a rule an animal (whether edible and harmless or dangerous and feared) and more rarely a plant or a natural phenomenon (such as rain or water), which stands in a peculiar relation to the whole clan. In the first place, the totem is the common ancestor of the clan; at the same time it is their guardian spirit and helper, which sends them oracles and, if dangerous to others, recognizes and spares its own children.” IfsFirstsChildrenWholeSpiritWaterNaturalAnimalCommonDangerousRainRelationPlantPhenomenonPeculiarAncestorSparesGuardianClansHelpersOraclesTotemsNatural Phenomena Book:Totem and Taboo Source: Totem and Taboo