Joy Untroubled

"Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, in your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of our foulness after you ~ alas, it is true of almost every one of us!"

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Our dominion has become exploitation; our management, a tyranny that silences the "joy untroubled."

To revere is now a radical act of rebellion—against the very pride that defiles the earth. We are called not to rule what we ruin, but to protect the purity we were meant to remember.