"People are Animals, Too!"

While some believe that homo sapiens are a distinct and special form of life above all other forms, that belief is only a human-contrived notion.  We come from all other life. We are intimately connected to all other life.  We cannot survive without all other life.   We are just another species in a glorious dance of life. Can we humble ourselves to realize this interconnectedness? Can we appreciate our dependence on all other life?  Can we learn to treat all other life with the same love that we give to our own children and pets? Once we do that, we may pause before continuing the mass ecological damage we are currently perpetrating on our greater genetic family’s cousins, aunts, and uncles on this planet we call home.