There is an instinctive bond between human beings and other living systems. We resonate with animals especially those animals that breathe, hear, see, sense, taste and emote similar to us. We hold an especially strong affinity with warm-blooded mammals because we all spring from the same primordial mist as anatomically evidenced by the vestigial tailbone of humans and vestigial leg bones of whales.

We learn to love by basking in the love of other people. We learn how to express our love and our warmest feelings whenever other people grace us with the privilege of besetting upon them many acts of kindness. We unleash a germinal of internal tenderness by affectionately doting upon pets and by generously spending time admiring the natural world.

Our compassion, spirituality, and appreciation of beauty provide us with the capacity to love.