"A dog is adorable and noble, a..." - Quote by Mary Oliver
A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.
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“Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.”
“For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.”
“The language of the poem is the language of particulars.”
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“Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.”
“What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be quite certain that it is necessary. I must never go beyond the unavoidable, not even in apparently insignificant things. The farmer who has mowed down a thousand flowers in his meadow in order to feed his cows must be careful on his way home not to strike the head off a single flower by the side of the road in idle amusement, for he thereby infringes on the law of life without being under the pressure of necessity.”
“The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.”