“It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around. Wendell Berry, "The Pleasures of Eating," What Are People For?, 1989 Jesus pioneered a relationship ethic based on compassion. Being a disciple means building relationships - with the Creator and with all creation and creatures.” PeopleKnowsMeanHelpingTurnsJesusPleasureAnimalRoomsCompassionCreationBuildingCreaturesEatingEthicsStandingBoxesCreatorLocalsConsumersStreamsPlatesDiscipleSteersBerriesHamburgersCalvesBuilding Relationships Author:Leonard Sweet
“We can now determine, easily and relatively cheaply, the detailed chemical architecture of genes ; and we can trace the products of these genes ( enzymes and proteins ) as they influence the course of embryology . In so doing we have made the astounding discovery that all complex animal phyla - arthropods and vertebrates in particular - have retained, despite their half-billion years of evolutionary independence, an extensive set of common genetic blueprints for building bodies.” YearsMadeBodyCoursesAnimalCommonHalfInfluenceBuildingParticularProductsDiscoveryIndependenceComplexesDetermineArchitectureBillionsDespiteChemicalsGenesProteinBlueprintsEnzymesVertebratesArthropods Book:Leonardo's Mountain Of Clams Source: Leonardo's Mountain Of Clams
“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
“Grace is in a great measure a natural gift; elegance implies cultivation; or something of more artificial character. A rustic, uneducated girl may be graceful, but an elegant woman must be accomplished and well trained. It is the same with things as with persons; we talk of a graceful tree, but of an elegant house or other building. Animals may be graceful, but they cannot be elegant. The movements of a kitten or a young fawn are full of grace; but to call them "elegant" animals would be absurd.” WellsMayPersonsCharacterWould BeYoungGirlHouseNaturalAnimalGraceTreeMovementBuildingAbsurdAccomplishedArtificialElegantEleganceKittenCultivationUneducatedRusticNatural GiftsElegant WomanFawns Book:A Selection of English Synonyms Source: A Selection of English Synonyms
“Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes.” MatterWaterAnimalBuildingPlantPollutionNurseryStagnantMosquitoesDebris Author:James Wright
“Man is a gregarious animal. He's not supposed to live in isolation. He should actually live in a community, but a community does not necessarily have to be a city. There's all the evidence in the world that the building of cities is one of the worst mistakes that mankind has ever made: For both physical and mental health we've got to be close to Mother Earth.” MenWorldShouldDoeMadeEarthMotherCommunityAnimalCitiesMistakeWorstMankindBuildingEvidenceMental HealthIsolationMother EarthGregarious Author:Ralph Borsodi