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“In scripture God brings the animals to the human for naming. In that simple act the human is brought to recognize the particular personality and worth of each living creature. Too bad we forget so often.”

Humans Simple Forget Animal Particular Personality Creatures Scripture Living Creatures

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted.”

“We say that we often see animals in our dreams, but we forget that almost always we are ourselves animals therein, deprived of that reasoning power which projects upon things the light of certainty; on the contrary we bring to bear on the spectacle of life only a dubious vision, extinguished anew every moment by oblivion, the former reality fading before that which follows it as one projection of a magic lantern fades before the next as we change the slide.”

Source: Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove

“Society is celebrity-based and we are determined to use [celebrities'] voices to make sure no one forgets there are issues over the use of animals. Celebrities can be great for our cause and can really make people sit up and think for the first time about animal abuse.”

People Thinking Firsts Use Causes Voice Forget Animal Issues First Time Abuse Determined Animal Abuse

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“Forget you are a man. Loose the animal you hide inside.”

Men Forget Animal Forget You

Book:Defiant

Source: Defiant

“I'm one of the actors who really enjoys working with kids and animals, which is always a no go. There's something beautiful about it because you tend to forget yourself, as an actor.”

Kids Beautiful Actors Enjoy Forget Animal Forget You Something Beautiful

Author:Mads Mikkelsen

“We humans should never forget our capacity to connect with the collective spirit of animals. Their energy is essential to our future growth.”

Should Humans Spirit Energy Growth Forget Animal Essentials Capacity Collectives Never Forget Our Future Future Growth

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Humans Reason Forget Animal Revolution Farms

Author:RuPaul

“The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from his life removes an essential ingredient of happiness. [. . .] He forgets that to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”

Want Humans Certain Forget Animal Effort Struggle Amount Essentials Mere Absence Remove Ingredients Indispensable Adapted Human Animal

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“We are animal. We are Earth. We are water. We are a community of human beings living on this planet together. And we forget that. We become disconnected, we lose our center point of gravity, that stillness that allows us to listen to life on a deeper level and to meet each other in a fully authentic and present way.”

Way Humans Earth Together Water Community Loses Human Beings Forget Animal Levels Planets Deeper Stillness Gravity Living On Disconnected

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“We're animals, I think we forget that. I think there is an ancient archetypal memory that still exists within us. If we deny that, what is the cost? So I do think it's what binds us as human beings.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Stills Memories Human Beings Forget Animal Cost Ancient Deny

Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

“Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of uncertainty over his life, even for him who forgets in the business of life that annihilation is awaiting him. It is for this reason chiefly that we have philosophy and religion.”

Men Firsts Reason Philosophy Moments Feelings Hours Forget Animal Approach Uncertainty Annihilation Philosophy And Religion

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer