When you have a little one, you realize that your only mission in life is to protect this helpless, very sensitive creature. That is your charge. That's primal. I relate to that deeply.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.
In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways.
I had to force myself not to be overly protective because I had lost one child.
Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
Animals are thinking, feeling creatures. They're sensitive.
I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be.
I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.
As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures.
I've always been a defiant little animal - always very much my own person.
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.