Sentences with phrase «species feel for other»

Or if you need to link love to something else, how about something plausible: Love is the emotional idealization of the mutual care that members of social species feel for other members of their in group and, as such, is the product of natural selection.

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At the close of the twentieth century, with ecological deterioration accelerating and the nuclear threat ever with us, we need to feel not acceptance but the challenge to join forces on the side of life, for while we, like all creatures, are ultimately part of a universe that is brutal and may well end, we have, while we live, a part to play different from that of any other creature: we are responsible agents who can join with our loving parent to help our own and other species to survive and flourish.

Of all the issues that were laid before me in this competition, I could not help but feel that by supporting this group of scientists and activists in their fight for the planet, we would also be promoting the ideas that knowledge / literacy is power — that other species should be treated with respect — that everyone deserves the basic rights of food, safety and equality — that despite our differences, our common ground is the planet we live on — and that unless we make a serious commitment to protect it, the problems of the future will be too big for any organization to tackle.

Like the Greek and Renaissance theaters, climate change theater stands at the nexus of two realities — an old, wasteful, violent known world, and a newly felt, and sometimes already lived, sustainable world of insight and connection between self and others across racial, national and species boundaries, a remaking of the individual as newly responsible for a living world....