“In view of the fading animals the proliferation of sewers and fears the sea clogging, the air nearing extinction we should be kind, we should take warning, we should forgive each other Instead we are opposite, we touch as though attacking, the gifts we bring even in good faith maybe warp in our hands to implements, to manoeuvres” ShouldKindHandsAnimalViewsAirSeaOppositesForgivingBe KindWarningExtinctionAttackingFadingProliferationGood FaithWarpSewersClogging Book:Selected Poems: 1965-1975 Source: Selected Poems: 1965-1975
“There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.” MenChoicesThreePleasureAnimalCommonObjectsOppositesPainfulNobleMotivePleasantGood ManThree ThingsAvoidance Author:Aristotle
“Well the thing is, once you have a snow leopard it's difficult to go back. Everything is going to be slightly disappointing. It's very telling what your choice would be. Because that's probably how you see yourself. We used to play that game as kids and you'd say if you were animal what would you be and it'd usually be the opposite of what it should be. But all animals have got their virtues. You know, cockroaches got virtues.” IfsKnowsShouldWellsPlayWould BeKidsUsedChoicesGamesDifficultAnimalVirtueOppositesSnowDisappointingCockroachesLeopardsSnow Leopards Author:Daniel Craig
“The most ancient and important taboo prohibitions are the two basic laws of totemism: not to kill the totem animal and to avoid sexual intercourse with members of the totem clan of the opposite sex.” TwoImportantLawSexAnimalMembersOppositesAncientTabooIntercourseProhibitionClansTotems Book:Totem and Taboo Source: Totem and Taboo