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“Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.”

Thinking Humans Past Animal Live In The Present Just Live Always Thinking Thinking About The Future

Author:Townes Van Zandt

“We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built on the exploitation of slaves.”

Today Past Animal Civilization Built Slavery Slave Comparison Vegan Exploitation Exploits Civilisation

Author:Donald Watson

“O God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, even our brothers, the animals, to whom Thou gavest the earth as their home in common with us. We must remember with shame that in the past we have exercised the high dominion of man with ruthless cruelty so that the voice of the earth, which should have gone up to thee in song, has been a groan of pain. May we realize that they live, not for us alone, but for themselves and for Thee and that they love the sweetness of life.”

“God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.”

Knows Past Animal

Book:The MaddAddam Trilogy Bundle: The Year of the Flood; Oryx & Crake; MaddAddam

Source: The MaddAddam Trilogy Bundle: The Year of the Flood; Oryx & Crake; MaddAddam

“I discovered that our clan included loads of cousins and uncles and aunts and animals of every shape. I was taught that chaos and competition were family values. And I learned that we all loved the sea. Somehow, the sea was about us-our past, our exuberance, our frailty, our longing.”

Past Values Animal Sea Taught Shapes Longing Competition Chaos Load Our Past Uncles Cousin Aunt Frailty Family Values Clans Exuberance

Author:Timothy Shriver

“Everything that has ever lived, plant or animal, dates its beginning from the same primordial twitch. At some point in an unimaginably distant past, some little bag of chemicals fidgeted to life. It absorbed some nutrients, gently pulsed, had a brief existence. This much may have happened many times before. But this ancestral packet did something additional and extraordinary. It cleaved itself and produced an heir. A tiny bundle of genetic material passed from one living entity to another, and has never stopped moving since. It was the moment of creation for us all.”

May Littles Moments Past Moving Animal Existence Happened Creation Materials Plant Extraordinary Tiny Bags Chemicals Entity Heirs Bundles Nutrients

Book:A Short History of Nearly Everything

Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity, no member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing to me. Its why I don't eat red meat or white fish, don't give me no blue cheese. Were all members of the animal kingdom, leave your brothers and sisters in the sea.”

Giving Past White Animal Sea Brother Members Red Give Me Blue Fishes Kingdoms Maturity Meat Nurse Cheese Brothers And Sisters Vegetarianism Your Brother Animal Kingdom Red Meat Blue Cheese

Author:Prince

“[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.”

Past Animal Fate Citizens Politician Hatred Active Indifference Historian Zookeepers

Book:Beatrice & Virgil

Source: Beatrice & Virgil

“The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity.”

“The purposiveness of all vital processes, the strategy of the genes and the power of the exploratory drive in animal and man, all seem to indicate that the pull of the future is as real as the pressure of the past.”

Men Real Seems Past Process Animal Pressure Strategy Genes

Author:Arthur Koestler

“In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.”

People Way Feels Doe Past Culture Animal West Historian Ancestor Past Life Biographers

Author:Miriam Makeba

“People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason, in a way that animals can’t do.”

People Way Reason Past Belief Imagination Animal Behavior Moved Making Changes

Author:Gretchen Rubin