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“We don’t belong there—we came from someplace else and we put our ugly flag in the ground and we slaughtered and stole and called it ours.”
A life’s impact can be measured by what it gives and what it leaves behind, but it can also be measured by what it steals from the world.
It’s for the violence we brought to the earth.”
It’s impossible to control someone else’s capacity for forgiveness.
That in our self-importance, in our search for meaning, we have forgotten how to share the planet that gave us life.
Saving specific animals purely on the basis of what they offer humanity may be practical, but wasn’t this attitude the problem to begin with? Our overwhelming, annihilating selfishness? What of the animals that exist purely to exist, because millions of years of evolution have carved them into miraculous being?
