By now it should be obvious that four-legged animals – for the most part – get along quite well with two-legged ones. This may not be exactly true during hunting season, but even then, those carrying rifles admire wild turkeys and deer, and many enjoy just being out in the woods away from civilization. Those men and women probably find being up in a tree stand to be exhilarating.
A family’s relationship with Fang or Garfield is a loving one – going both ways. Each member of the venture obtains something from it.
As we have seen, a child offers the family beagle love as well as water and food. In turn, this creature brings calmness and has a soothing effect on the owner and his or her family.
An excellent movie about working together
– people with other people and humans with the animal kingdom – is the 2005 movie, Spirit Bear:
The Simon Jackson Story. Based on true events, this inspirational motion picture is the story of a 83
caring fifteen-year old boy who discovers that the rare white karmode bear that he sees is endangered by the lumbering industry, on the move to destroy the very place that Spirit Bear calls home. It makes a convincing argument that one person can effect a difference. Simon is deeply inspired not only by this beautiful animal, but by a few others around him.
They in turn may have lost hope but instead were motivated by Simon, who stood up to the forest industry. These corporations have so many places to harvest wood, and should do so without so much destruction and in an environmentally sound way.
Spirit Bear illustrates the connection between man and animal. It also gives us hope and should convince each of us that one individual can make a difference. Obviously if a group joins in to help, matters will be that much easier to accomplish any goal. People and animals feed on each other – I don’t mean it that way. In any event, it won’t be easy, but great things can be accomplished. They probably wouldn’t have been involved without that first initiation by a single individual.
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