"Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?"

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It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our species than Homo sapiens might be Homo narrans, the storytelling person. What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people’s dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats–and they in turn can listen to ours.

— Henning Mankell