We humans make a big thing about our being the only thinking, reflective critter, and make proclamations like 'the unexamined life is not worth living. ' ... The lion and the giraffe and the wombat and the rest [of the animals in the zoo] do what they do and are what they are. And somehow manage to make it there in the cage, living the unexamined life. But to be human is to know and care and ask. (Fulghum, 1989, pp. 158-159)
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