#creature

Mamma was just pulling your tail to see if it squeaked. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves? ↗

— Joy Adamson

#brain #creatures #enough #fellow #fellow creatures

It is difficult to free fools from chains they revere. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#kami-garcia #margaret-stohl #beauty

And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#freedom #freedom

To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#creatures #food #life #sacrament #art

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#any #compassion #creatures #deal #exclude

Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#human-nature #monsters #warnings #nature

Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage. ↗

— Morris West

#creature #experiences #his #man #nightmare

My children are magical creatures and I love them to death. ↗

— Jack Black

#creatures #death #i #i love #love

The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature. ↗

— Michael O'Donoghue

#become #becoming #beyond #creature #flying