The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.
Interpretation
The connection we share with a loyal dog is deeply meaningful and enduring.
This quote highlights the profound and lasting bond that can exist between humans and their dogs. It suggests that the loyalty and companionship provided by a dog can rival the most significant relationships in our lives, emphasizing the unique value of this connection.
In practice
During a pet adoption event, one might say this quote to emphasize the importance of finding a loyal companion.
Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behaviour patterns which relates to more than a few minor details, we assume it to be caused by parallel adaptation to the same life-preserving function.
I grew up in the large house and the larger garden of my parents in Altenberg. They were supremely tolerant of my inordinate love for animals.
More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.
In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the species.
Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes into contact with nature, threatens to kill the natural system in which and from which he live.
I owe undying gratitude to my patient parents.
In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most vivid representation of your own personality. Your spouse becomes the most gleaming possible mirror through which your emotional individualism is reflected back to the world. There is no choice more intensely personal after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.
Your marriage goes to a whole new level. You not only fall in love with your wife in a new way, but you're forced to pull together. You have to become a united front.
The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had to step up to the plate.
Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mother relationship, but they extend to all people with whom woman comes into contact.
In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted them more power in relationships and increased their likelihood of heartbreak.
She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!
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