Just look at the animals, at the birds; nobody is worried, nobody is sad, nobody is frustrated. You don’t see a buffalo freaking out. He is perfectly contented chewing the same grass every day. He is almost enlightened. There is no tension; there is a tremendous harmony with nature, with himself, with everything as it is. Buffaloes don’t make parties to revolutionize the world, to change buffaloes into super buffaloes, to make buffaloes religious, virtuous. No animal is concerned at all with human ideas.
And they all must be laughing: “What has happened to you? Why can’t you be just yourself as you are? What is the need to be somebody else?”
So the first thing is a deep acceptance of yourself.
Elephants have been known to die of broken hearts if a mate dies. They refuse to eat and will lay down, shedding tears until they starve to death. They refuse all human help. Scientists are beginning to believe that animals do have emotions and that their feelings may be more intense and unfiltered than our own. Emotion rises from the old brain, the limbic system, which birds and reptiles as well as dogs, humans, and other mammals share. Humans have additional brain structures and symbolic language to process our feelings and a complex array of psychological defense mechanisms that allay or soften the impact of our emotions. We repress, deny, subjugate, dissociate, and use all kinds of conscious and unconscious machinations to separate ourselves from our feelings, but animals have no such recourse, so their emotions are likely to be raw and strong. In fact, this may be one of the reasons we find them so attractive: they wear their hearts on their sleeves, so to speak. People seem to deny the existence of animal emotions so that they can continue to justify inhumane treatment and exploitation and avoid the fact that our actions have a deep emotional impact on our fellow beings, a deep one …
(Source: grovegrove, via coraljones)
Just found out about the Maned Wolf of Brazil yesterday, so cool! check it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maned_Wolf
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Wearable Wildlife of the Day: Animal Rings from Haoshi Design Studio.
Sterling silver and white plastic. Sizes vary. $79 (add $20 for x2 rings).
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Wearable Wildlife of the Day: Animal Rings from Haoshi Design Studio.
Sterling silver and white plastic. Sizes vary. $79 (add $20 for x2 rings).
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Art Project of the Day: “Do Not Be Scared” — artist Paul Revie’s series of “information graphics” aimed at dispelling the myth that being consumed by wild animals is a cause for concern.
Several of the pieces can be purchased via Revie’s Etsy store.
Revie says:
Why if it teaches even one ignorant child, then it will have been worth getting eaten alive by all these different animals to find out whats inside. it still amazes me, that we can put a man on the moon, but we cant tell whats on the inside of a doberman. whichever political party has the guts to make this their key issue will get my vote. thats for damn sure.
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Art Project of the Day: “Do Not Be Scared” — artist Paul Revie’s series of “information graphics” aimed at dispelling the myth that being consumed by wild animals is a cause for concern.
Several of the pieces can be purchased via Revie’s Etsy store.
Revie says:
Why if it teaches even one ignorant child, then it will have been worth getting eaten alive by all these different animals to find out whats inside. it still amazes me, that we can put a man on the moon, but we cant tell whats on the inside of a doberman. whichever political party has the guts to make this their key issue will get my vote. thats for damn sure.
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