The cow is a poem of pity

Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in all human evolution, for it takes the human being beyond his species. The cow to me means the entire subhuman world. Man through the cow is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives... The cow is a poem of pity... Protection of the cow means protection of the whole dumb creation of God... The appeal of the lower order of creation is all the more forcible because it is speechless.

Mohandas Gandhi

they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time

We need another wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals... We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of earth.

in Autumn, Ocean and Birds by Henry Beston

we just want to have a good time, all the time

· Good time · Brazilian Girls

You've got more than money and sense my friend, you've got heart and you're going your own way

· L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N · Noah and the whale

on an island in the sun, we'll be playing and having fun

· Island in the sun · Weezer

...with music

"We'll free the people with music."

Bob Marley

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·reality·illusion·

"Reality is a mere illusion albeit a very persistent one."

Albert Einstein