Thoreau on friendship and sympathy - from an earlier post by Ulla Kelly If you would be convinced how differently armed the squirrel is naturally for dealing with pitch pine cones, just try to get one off with your teeth. He who extracts the seeds from a single closed cone with the aid of a knife will be constrained to confess that the squirrel earns his dinner. It is a rugged customer, and will make your fingers bleed. But the squirrel has the key to this conical and spiny chest of many apartments. He sits on a post, vibrating his tail, and twirls it as a plaything. But so is a man commonly a locked-up chest to us, to open whom, unless we have the key of sympathy, will make our hearts bleed. brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/07/12/thoreau-on-friendship-sympathy-and-animal-consciousness/
Posted on: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 05:15:57 +0000
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