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“Perhaps the attempt to achieve grace by identification with the animals was the most sensitive thing which was tried in the whole bloody history of religion .”

Whole Animal Grace Achieve Sensitive Bloody Identification

Author:Gregory Bateson

“If you are a cooperative animal you need to watch what you get. If you, or even a whole community, invest in something but then a few individuals receive a much larger return, it's not a good arrangement. If it happens consistently, it's time to look for an arrangement that is more beneficial. That's why we're so sensitive to how rewards are being divided.”

Ifs Needs Looks Whole Happens Individual Community Animal Watches Return Rewards Sensitive Divided Consistently Arrangements Beneficial Cooperatives

Author:Frans de Waal

“Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.”

Firsts Animal Practice Sensitive

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“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.”

“In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even in defensive armor. In fact, nature began with producing animals encased in hard shells for defense against the ill of life. But smaller animals, without external armor, warm-blooded, sensitive, alert, have cleared those monsters off the face of the earth.”

World Hard Facts Earth Faces Animal Gone Violence Method Species Ill Warm Defense Monsters Sensitive Prize Shells World History Armor

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“I'm very sensitive to energy and people and life and animals and a lot of things.”

People Energy Animal Sensitive

Author:Kim Basinger

“I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature-not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor.”

Source: pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation