However much we obfuscate or ignore it, we know that the factory farm is inhumane in the deepest sense of the word. And we know that there is something that matters in a deep way about the lives we create for the living beings most within our power. Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless--it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another.

It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.

Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.

i couldn't speak the language of his feelings

Why didn't he say goodbye? I gave myself a bruise. Why didn't he say 'I love you'?

If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?

Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.