Man, do not exhale yourself above the animals: they are without sin, while you in your majesty defile the earth by your appearance on it. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

Man, do not exhale yourself above the animals: they are without sin, while you in your majesty defile the earth by your appearance on it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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