Sacramento Zoo Animals Part III 2/7/15 Patterns! Patterns! Patterns!

"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened."

~~ Anatole France

"Giraffes are fairytale animals, almost heraldic - as if from the land of fables.  They have extremely beautiful faces, huge eyes, very sensitive nostrils, and oh!  blue tongues!"
~~ Joanna Lumley

 The baby. 

"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language." ~~ Martin Buber

"I asked the zebra,
Are you black with white stripes?
Or white with black stripes?

And the zebra asked me,
Are you good with bad habits?
Or are you bad with good habits?
Are you noisy with quiet times?
Or are you quiet with noisy times?

Are you happy with sad days?
Or are you sad with happy days?
Are you neat with some sloppy ways?
Or are you sloppy with some neat ways?

And on and on and on and on
And on and on he went.

I'll never ask a zebra
About stripes
Again."

~~Shel Silverstein "A Light in the Attic"

Beep Beep!  (It's the Greater American Roadrunner)

"Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship.

We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't.  Because they all stand unequal and powerless before us." 
~~Matthew Scully

"Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption.

They are splendid beings in their own right, who have evolved alongside us as co-inheritors of all the beauty and abundance of life on this planet."  ~~Marc Bekoff

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

~~Mahatma Gandhi

xoxo