我们越是了解非人类动物的真实本性,尤其是那些拥有复杂大脑和相应复杂社会行为的动物,就越会对它们在为人类服务中的使用产生伦理上的担忧——无论是在娱乐、作为“宠物”、用于食物、在实验室中,还是我们施加给它们的任何其他用途。
蓬草长在麻地里,不用扶持也能挺立住;白沙混进了黑土里,就会变得和土一样黑。
每个生命都是一个值得讲述的故事,只要我们愿意花时间去倾听。
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
音乐是我的力量,也是我的弱点。
但我不知道会发生什么。这让我非常渴望,真的非常渴望。我不能偷懒。