- Love: a total commitment to each other. Patience: an infinite amount. Understanding: so we know each other's strengths and weaknesses. Respect: so we don't take advantage of each other.
- My daughter Tana was, and is, one of the greatest blessings God has bestowed on me, and I feel that she, like her mother, was brought to earth to share her life with animals. She inherited her mother's beauty, inner and outer, and her incredible smile immediately transmits her love to everyone-animal or human-who comes in contact with her.
- When man chooses to develop his innate power of communication with nature and therefore hear the voice, all will be right with the world - we will be as one. What you have been able to do with your Modoc is what man has been seeking for a long time. To communicate with nature through animals.
- Remember, the moon is reflected in one drop of water as it is the entire ocean - so it is with God. He is reflected in each living thing - in a grain of sand as the entire shore, one star as the whole universe. Each animal as in all creatures.
- A good teacher teaches what he has been taught. A wise one teaches what he has learned.
- One of the most special moments in my career occurred on the day that Johnny Weissmuller, the greatest 'Tarzan' (Character) of them all, came out to the ranch to work with some of my elephants for a film he was doing. He was very impressed with our training methods.
- Lack of fear is just as dangerous as fear itself-which is, of course, lack of understanding. And the moment you understand, you can't fear.
- It's ironic how committed Hollywood was (and remains) to this vision of lions as savage beasts, especially considering that there's never been an animal who kills as viciously and indiscriminately as humans.
- Deep in ourselves resides the religious impulse. Out of the passions of our clay it rises.
We have religion when we stop deluding ourselves that we are self-sufficient, self-sustaining or self-derived.
We have religion when we hold some hope beyond the present, some self-respect beyond our failures.
We have religion when our hearts are capable of leaping up at beauty, when our nerves are edged by some dream in our heart.
We have religion when we have an abiding gratitude for all that we have received.
We have religion when we look upon people with all their failings and still find in them good; when we look beyond people to the grandeur in nature and to the purpose in our own heart.
We have religion when we have done all that we can, and then in confidence entrust ourselves to the life that is larger than ourselves. - Trees are like people and give the answers to the way of Man. They grow from the top down. Children, like treetops, have flexibility of youth, and sway more than larger adults at the bottom. They are more vulnerable to the elements, and are put to the test of survival by life's strong winds, rain, freezing cold, and hot sun. Constantly challenged. As they mature, they journey down the tree, strengthening the family unit until one day they have become big hefty branches. In the stillness below, having weathered the seasons, they now relax in their old age, no longer subject to the stress from above. It's always warmer and more enclosed at the base of the tree. The members remain protected and strong as they bear the weight and give support to the entire tree. They have the endurance.
- Those of us who are in tune with nature and animals know it is our way of life, Bram. There is a connection to all living things, a vibration of Life. Animals were not given a power of choice. A lion does not try and eat legumes, nor an elephant meat. We believe the best way to communicate with nature, God, is through a liaison: the animals..... Nature hears one voice and obeys it. That is why ten or ten thousand birds may rise from the surface of a lake at the same time and yet never touch one another. Man only hears his own voice. He constantly bumps into another. Even his voice mirrors his erratic walk, jealousy, hate, ego, pride, lying, cheating. He makes his own judgements and falls prey to his greed. Remember, the moon is reflected on one drop of water as is the entire ocean-- so it is with God. He is reflected ins each living thing-- in a grain of sand as the entire shore, one star as the whole universe. Each animal as in all creatures. -Jagrat
- There is a connection to all living things, a vibration of Life. Animals were not given a power of choice. A lion does not try to eat legumes nor an elephant meat. We believe the best way to communicate with nature, God, is through a liaison: the animals.
- While we still have a chance, let us learn to respect the beauty of the beasts.
- Some people confuse the respect that has been earned by fear with the respect earned by love. They are not the same.
- Animals have attained such perfection in their existence, while man has never known such tranquility. I have always believed that animals listen to one perfect voice - nature's voice - and do as it bids them. We, on the other hand, listen only to ourselves, and we do as we please. Our ego, our pride, is generally our instructor, instead of reality, intellect, or even common sense. We live our lives superficially, led by our personalities.
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