People suppose that words are different from the peeps of baby birds, but is there any difference, or isn't there?

Zhuangzi

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Man and animals Language

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Zhuangzi

Language

Chinese

Time

220 BC 220s BC 3rd century BC

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Philosopher

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China Asia

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Zhou, Zhuang. Discussion on Making All Things Equal. c. 221 BC.

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It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood and stench and spilling gut; it came to him that he had sickened and turned away because of his shock at seeing the buffalo, a few moments before proud and noble and full of the dignity of life, now stark and helpless, a length of inert meat, divested of itself, or his notion of its self, swinging grotesquely, mockingly, before him. It was not itself; or it was not that self that he had imagined it to be. That self was murdered; and in that murder he had felt the destruction of something within him, and he had not been able to face it. So he had turned away.

John Williams (novelist)

Butcher's Crossing

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Animal cruelty Man and animals Interconnectedness of all things

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John Williams (novelist)
Source
Butcher's Crossing
Medium
Novel
Genre
Western fiction Western
Language
English
Time
1960 1960s 20th century
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Williams, John. Butcher's Crossing. Macmillan, 1960, pt. 2, ch. 5.

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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching

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Patience All in good time Nature Teleology

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Lao Tzu
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Tao Te Ching
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Philosophical literature Religious literature
Language
Chinese
Time
400 BC 400s BC 5th century BC
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Original Citation

Laozi [Lao Tzu]. 道德經 [Tao Te Ching]. c. 400 BC, ch. 37.

Current Citation

Laozi [Lao Tzu]. "The Natural Way of Lao Tzu." A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, translated by Wing-Tsit Chan. Princeton University Press, 1969, ch. 37.