“There's something about watching an animal that puts you in contact with where we came from and what we're still a part of.” StillsAnimalContactWhere We Came Author:John Cleese
“A horse perceives eye contact as provocative, as if it and its status in the herd are not being respected. If it cannot avoid eye contact, it will react in a different way, by rebelling for example. In dressage you don't get anywhere by not showing respect, however superior your species might be. Any animal trainer can tell you that. In the mountains in Argentina there's a wild horse which will jump off the nearest precipice if any human tries to ride it.” IfsWayTryingHumansDifferentMightEyeAnimalExampleMountainHorseSpeciesSuperiorsContactPerceiveDifferent WaysHerdsTrainersProvocativeArgentinaPrecipiceEye ContactWild HorsesDressage Book:The Oslo Trilogy: The Redbreast, Nemesis and The Devil's Star Source: The Oslo Trilogy: The Redbreast, Nemesis and The Devil's Star
“We have seen that blood united to blood in the case of but remotely connected species of animals, kills; blood united to blood in the case of more closely allied species of animals does not kill. The physical organism of man survives when strange blood comes in contact with strange blood, ... but clairvoyant power perishes under the influence of this mixing of blood, or exogamy.” MenDoeAnimalUnitedCasesBloodInfluenceStrangeSpeciesScaryConnectedContactOrganismsMixingClairvoyant Author:Rudolf Steiner
“I call animals "guardians of Being," especially animals that live with humans. Because, for many humans, it's through their contact with animals they get in touch with that level of being.” HumansAnimalLevelsContactGuardian Author:Eckhart Tolle
“We may be losing the ability to understand animals who are not pets or horses. We have less contact with them. We don't (most of us) tend to know even cows and pigs, let alone bears or wolverines or red tailed hawks.” KnowsMayAbilityAnimalBearsLosingRedHorseContactPetCowsPigsHawks Author:Marge Piercy
“For most humans, especially for those in modern urban and suburban communities, the most direct form of contact with nonhuman animals is at meal time: we eat them.... The use and abuse of animals raised for food far exceeds, in sheer numbers of animals affected, any other kind of mistreatment.” HumansKindUseFormCommunityAnimalNumbersModernDirectAbuseRaisedContactMealsAffectedSheerUrbanExceedMistreatmentUse And Abuse Book:Animal rights and human obligations Source: Animal rights and human obligations