winter wearing and reading

"Its feelings may be "written all over its face," and it may only take practice to read that writing. We are restricted only by ignorance, lack of interest, desire for exploitation (like wanting to eat them), or by anthropocentric prejudices that preclude us, as if by divine fiat, from recognizing commonality where it might exist. How can we be gods if animals are like us?"
- excerpt from When Elephants Weep, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy