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Standing Tall, Stooping to Help

December 13, 2013 by still a dreamer

Abraham Lincoln once said, “A man never stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.” In my world, that would read “… when he stoops to help a child or an animal.”

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Those of you who know me personally know my deep involvement with animals. It began so, so long ago. As soon as I could stand, I was toddling up to animals. I am drawn helplessly to them by a sheer and invisible magnetic force. Our lives are intertwined in ways I cannot even describe. Needless to say, I am deeply touched when any of us rises to the occasion and helps our animal friends.

I pulled the photos posted from an e-mail forwarded by a friend. As is often the case in these e-mails, the photos have been collected from all over the internet and their source is never known. So here I thank all of you, whoever you are, for taking these wonderful and inspiring photographs. They make me proud to be a human on this often-struggling, sometimes cruel, sometimes compassionate planet we call Earth.

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“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

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“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which is deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.” ― Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

Merry Christmas.

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Posted in Animals, Authors, Helping Out, Inspiration, Life, Photography, Reflections, Spiritual | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, animal photographs, animal rescue, animals, firefighter, fireman, Mahatma Gandhi, man helping animals, rescue | 6 Comments

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  1. on December 14, 2013 at 11:55 am nan

    If we cant help those who cannot talk we will never be able to help each other.

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    • on December 14, 2013 at 3:15 pm still a dreamer

      I couldn’t agree more. J.

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  2. on January 3, 2014 at 5:12 pm Professions for PEACE

    Oh my gosh – these are incredible! Brightened my eyes with shining tears. Thank you so much for sharing this excellent post. Gina

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    • on January 3, 2014 at 5:34 pm still a dreamer

      They touched me deeply as well, Gina. We really need to share the good stuff. You are so very welcome. Jeanne

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  3. on January 15, 2014 at 1:04 pm 47whitebuffalo

    I find it interesting that most of these photos involve MEN as the rescuers and caregivers.
    Hi.

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    • on January 15, 2014 at 1:55 pm still a dreamer

      Good point, so makes me wonder if the person who originally put together the e-mail that I pulled these from was a guy! So many caretakers of animals are women, yet comparatively few are firefighters or Army. And maybe it’s more men taking care of the larger animals like elephants? (It certainly is men who horribly abuse them when “training” them for the circus – but let’s not go there.)

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