In this celebrated book author Gary Kowalski offers vignettes from the lives of creatures that illustrate the qualities he considers spiritual: playfulness; capacity for love; altruism; and awareness of death. By "de-sacrilizing" animals, we make ourselves less human. Kowalski reminds us, "if we are to keep our family homestead -- Earth -- safe for coming generations, we must awaken to a new respect for the family of life".
In this celebrated book author Gary Kowalski offers vignettes from the lives of creatures that illustrate the qualities he considers spiritual: playfulness; capacity for love; altruism; and awareness of death. By "de-sacrilizing" animals, we make ourselves less human. Kowalski reminds us, "if we are to keep our family homestead -- Earth -- safe for coming generations, we must awaken to a new respect for the family of life".