Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Quotes
Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it, and ourselves. They are innocent sufferers in a hell of our making.
Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair...they feel.
Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core.
We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us.
Dogs love us not only because we feed them, walk them, or groom them, or protect them, but because we are fun. How astonishing!
Hardly any animal can look as deeply disappointed as a dog to whom one says "no."
The curiosity of cats is, like their affection, of a purity and intensity rarely seen in humans. We would be jaded when faced with the fiftieth paper bag. Not so our cats.
Us" versus "them" is not in our genes. It is something we learn.
