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When Animals Adopt: Lessons of Love and Adoptive Stewardship
Posted on June 11, 2008
Love has no bounds is an old clich . Everyone loves love from Valentine's Day paraphernalia to sappy greeting cards. And environmentalists say they love nature, love the Earth, love a place or animal.Obviously, nature is often red in tooth and claw, as Tennyson puts it.1 However, nature also has its soft-and-fuzzy side, which provides a wonderful lesson and model for how humans in general and environmentalists in particular can relate to nature. A particularly splendid example of this is animals adopting other animals.I have been watching a pair of cardinals parentin...
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