“The humanity and the humility, which are very different than the biological species homo sapiens. Humanity versus homo sapiens - very different things. We are biological creatures, we are animals, no doubt, but when you talk about "humando," you're talking about that particular kind of animals who are aware of their impending extinction, who have the capacity to be sensitive to catastrophe and disaster and calamity and profound crisis.” KindDifferentHumanityAnimalTalkingDoubtHumilityParticularCreaturesCapacityCrisisProfoundSpeciesDisasterSensitiveNo DoubtDifferent ThingsCatastropheVersusExtinctionCalamityHomo Sapiens Author:Cornel West
“He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the earth and to hold suzerainty over the earth and the animals on it in His name, not to hold for himself and his descendants inviolable title forever, generation after generation, to the oblongs and squares of the earth, but to hold the earth mutual and intact in the communal anonymity of brotherhood, and all the fee He asked was pity and humility and sufferance and endurance and the sweat of has face for bread.” MenFirstsMadeEarthFacesNamesAnimalForeverGenerationsHumilityCreaturesEnvironmentalBreadPityDumbTitlesMutualEnduranceSquaresSweatBrotherhoodStewardshipDescendantsFeesAnonymity Book:Bear, man, and God: eight approaches to William Faulkner's The bear Source: Bear, man, and God: eight approaches to William Faulkner's The bear
“In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility and compassion - ways of proceeding that grow more and more necessary as the world crowds in.” WorldWayInspirationalMotivationalGrowsAnimalPayAttentionCompassionLearningGrowingHumilityEmpathyPlantCrowdsNovelistsCrowdedRespectfulRespecting OthersProceedingPlants And AnimalsBe Respectful Author:William Kittredge
“I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom not separated from it.” PeopleThinkingLittlesRealizingAnimalHumilityKingdomsRememberedAnimal Kingdom Author:Jane Goodall