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.
Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.
For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.
One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.
When you wept it was just over yourself and not because of the marvelous impossibility of reaching her through the difference that separates you.
Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.
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