"I think I could turn & live with animals they are so
placid and self-contain'd. I stand & look at them long & long. They do not sweat & whine about their condition; they do not lay awake in the dark & weep for their sins..Not one is dissatisified, not one is demented with the mania of owning things...They show me their relations to myself, and I accept them...." Walt Whitman