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Their bodies lay flatly on the rocks, and their eyes regarded him with evil interest: but it does no...

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In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, a...

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Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for...

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My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures.

Yea, slimy things did crawl with legsUpon the slimy sea.

Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted...

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We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this h...

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We are working well when we use ourselves as the fellow creatures of the plants, animals, materials,...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lov...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Beasts bounding through time. Van Gogh writing his brother for paintsHemingway testing his shotgunCe...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

At some point, one asks, "Toward what end is my life lived?" A great freedom comes from being able t...

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Diane AckermanThe Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals

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

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Dr. SeussYertle the Turtle and Other Stories