
Anna Breytenbach: Interspecies Communication (E57)
A New and Ancient Story: The Podcast
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The Covenant Between Humans and Other Species
I've been so moved again and again in my work, which is all this wildlife and wild spaces, to see and witness just how compassionate the non-humans are towards us. They have not only an ordinary amount of patience, but a huge amount of compassion. And there's plenty of examples amongst the bigger animals, like the sharks, like the cows, like elephants in captivity or those used in logging. There's plenty of species who are large enough to very easily cause a lot of damage to their human captors or slave drivers. And they don't. It's quite astounding how they remain true to these underlying states of balance and harmony,. The universe on the micro-macro level
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