“Monopathy, or over-specialisation, eventually retreats into defending what one has learnt rather than making new connections. The initial spurt of learning gives out, and the expert is left, like an animal, merely defending his territory.” GivingLeftAnimalConnectionsExpertsTerritoryRetreatInitials Author:Robert Twigger
“Mom & pop stores are not about something small; they are about something big. Ninety percent of all U.S. businesses are family owned or controlled. They are important not only for the food, drink, clothing, and tools they sell us, but also for providing us with intellectual stimulation, social interaction, and connection to our communities. We must have mom & pop stores because we are social animals. We crave to be part of the marketplace.” ImportantBigsSocialCommunityAnimalMomDrinkIntellectualPercentToolsConnectionsSellsPopsStoresControlledClothingsInteractionProvidingNinetyCraveMarketplaceOur CommunityStimulationSocial Interaction Book:The Mom & Pop Store: True Stories from the Heart of America Source: The Mom & Pop Store: True Stories from the Heart of America
“The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice in the relationship, contrast sharply with the much trickier dealings with members of their own species.” FeelsChildrenJoyAnimalSourceMembersConnectionsSpeciesPetUnconditional LoveContrastIntuitiveUnconditionalArtificeDealings Author:Frans de Waal
“The animals are at a level prior to thinking. They haven't lost themselves in thought. We rise above thinking and then we meet them again, where we're both in no-thought. There's a deep connection.” ThinkingLostAnimalLevelsHavensConnectionsRise AboveDeep Connections Author:Eckhart Tolle
“One cannot use with impunity the different categories of beings-animals, plants, the natural elements-simply as one wishes, according to economic needs. One must take into account the nature of each being and its mutual connection in an ordered system, which is the cosmos.” NeedsDifferentUseWishNaturalAnimalEconomicElementsConnectionsAccountsPlantEnvironmentalCosmosMutualCategoriesStewardshipImpunityNatural Elements Author:Pope John Paul II
“I think every pet lover has an appreciation for nature - I've never met an animal lover who didn't have some kind of connection to the natural world.” ThinkingWorldKindNaturalAnimalLoversMetsConnectionsAppreciationPetNatural WorldAnimal LoveAnimal Lover Author:Glenn Close
“What makes me feel alive is community, connectedness. Certainly family, parenting, relationships, friendship. All the way into colleague relationships and relationship with spirit, relationship with one's own self and inner child, and animals, earth, planet. Fostering and nurturing and really focusing on connection - connection in relationship with other and my own self and God. When I don't feel connected in all those three areas, life is not very good.” WayFeelsChildrenSelfEarthLife IsSpiritThreeCommunityMy OwnAnimalAlivePlanetsAreasConnectionsVery GoodConnectedColleaguesNurturingConnectednessInner ChildRelationships With OthersFostering Author:Alanis Morissette
“It's a sign of respect and connection to learn the name of someone else, a sign of disrespect to ignore it. And yet, the average American can name over a hundred corporate logos and ten plants. Is it a surprise that we have accepted a political system that grants personhood to corporations, and no status at all for wild rice and redwoods? Learning the names of plants and animals is a powerful act of support for them. When we learn their names and their gifts, it opens the door to reciprocity.” PoliticalNamesAnimalPowerfulSupportDoorsTenHundredConnectionsPlantSurpriseAverageAcceptedCorporateCorporationsGrantsRiceDisrespectPolitical SystemsReciprocityLogosPlants And AnimalsPersonhoodRedwoods Author:Robin Wall Kimmerer
“Anything that helps us know ourselves more deeply, love ourselves more fully, improve our social connections with family and friends, and engage us more completely with the earth, animals, and environment, is a good resource for healing.” KnowsHelpingEarthSocialAnimalHealingEnvironmentResourcesConnectionsFamily And Friends Author:Jed Diamond
“I think I will always have a connection to young people, to try to bring their voices to the polls, bring their voices wherever they can make a difference. Even to protect their own interests or the interests of the planet or the animals or other individuals, which is critical. I try to keep it.” PeopleThinkingTryingYoungIndividualVoiceInterestDifferencesAnimalPlanetsProtectConnectionsCriticalMaking A DifferencePolls Author:Russell Simmons
“Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you’ll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one. When many people have this heart connection, then we will know that we are all one, we human beings all over the planet. We will be one. One love. And don’t leave out the animals, and trees, and clouds, and galaxies-it’s all one. It’s one energy.” PeopleKnowsHumansLooksHeartSoulEnergyHuman BeingsAnimalTreePlanetsEgoConnectionsCloudsAmazedGalaxyOne Love Book:Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart Source: Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart
“My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the past. Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?” PeopleKnowsPastFallHouseLosesMemoriesAnimalEnvironmentChildhoodTaughtDadProtectLosingConnectionsSacredMy DadBricksFalling DownChildhood MemoriesAboriginal Author:Bindi Irwin
“Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. No voices now speak to man from stones, plants and animals, nor does he speak to them thinking they can hear. His contact with nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied.” ThinkingMenDoeHomeSpiritEnergySpeakVoiceAnimalGoneEmotionalMountainRiversStonesConnectionsAngryPlantProfoundContactDemonSnakesCavesThunderSymbolicEmbodimentPlants And AnimalsEmotional Energy Author:Carl Jung
“Intellectually, human beings and animals may be different, but it's pretty obvious that animals have a rich emotional life and that they feel joy and pain. It's easy to forget the connection between a hamburger and the cow it came from. But I forced myself to acknowledge the fact that every time I ate a hamburger, a cow had ceased to breathe” FeelsHumansMayDifferentFactsPainJoyEasyHuman BeingsForgetAnimalRichEmotionalConnectionsObviousBreatheAcknowledgeVegetarianVeganCowsHamburgersEmotional LifeJoy And PainHuman Beings And Animals Author:Moby