”The wild cruel animal is not behind the bars of a cage. He is in front of it.”
~ Axel Munthe

ڰۣ☘ڿ "We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do." ~ Barbara Ward, 1972, "Only One Earth: the Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet" ڰۣ☘ڿ

”I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me. I saw where it was born deep down under feathers and fur, or condemned for a while to roam four-footed among the brambles I caught the clinging mute glance of the prisoner and swore that I would be faithful.”
~ Henry David Thoreau

“For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.” ~ Pythagoras

“Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.” ~ Pythagoras

Pythagoras's theorem: a2+ b2 = c2
[2 meaning "squared"; relation between the sides of a right triangle] - bit of trivia for ya; yes the Greek philosopher and the mathematician, Pythagoras

"An unexamined life is not worth living." ~ Plato

Plato was credited with this quote from Plato's Apology, which is a recollection of the speech Socrates gave at his trial.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Apology_(Plato)

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The Panther (1905)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translation: Robert Bly

THE POEM

1. From seeing the bars, his seeing is so exhausted
2. that it no longer holds anything anymore.
3. To him the world is bars, a hundred thousand
4. bars, and behind the bars, nothing.
5. The lithe swinging of that rhythmical easy stride
6. which circles down to the tiniest hub
7. is like a dance of energy around a point
8. in which a great will stands stunned and numb.
9. Only at times the curtains of the pupil rise
10. without a sound . . . then a shape enters,
11. slips though the tightened silence of the shoulders,
12. reaches the heart, and dies.

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"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.” ~ Henry David Thoreau, "Walden or Why I Went to the Woods"

"What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?" ~ Henry David Thoreau
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ღ♥ღ ”The only people I owe my loyalty to are to those that never made me question theirs.” ~ Joe Mehl ღ♥ღ
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ALSO "clovercooper" is my Alice Cooper tribute channel and PA is my silly channel. Different interests that require different channels. BTW, I am not as nice as Alice and PA...just sayin'.

My original "cloversweed" vanished. No biggie. Is still me, clover. If interested in animal advocacy, please visit my YT channel.