First Lines: The Bond

The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals,

Our Call to Defend Them

"We all have our own ideas about how to make the world a better place -- and that's a good thing" (from the Preface).

"The east Texas summer sun was bearing down as I rumbled across the cattle guards at the front gate of America's  largest animal sanctuary, the thirteen-hundred-acre Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch" (from the Introduction: Sanctuary).

"I'll never forget an encounter I witnessed, as a teenager, between my mother and a mouse" (from Chapter One: The Ties That Bond).

Written by Wayne Pacelle
Published in 2011