“May not the goose say thus: All the parts of the universe I have an interest in: the earth serves me to walk upon, the sun to light me; the stars have their influence upon me; I have such an advantage by the winds and such by the waters; there is nothing that yon heavenly roof looks upon so favourably as me. I am the darling of Nature! Is it not man that keeps and serves me?” (Michel de Montaigne, Book II, ch. 12. Apology for Raimond Sebond)

A wonderful lateral thinker was Montaigne. Nowadays, we are so obsessed with the importance and achievments of mankind and its survival that we barely notice the damage we are doing to other creatures with whom we share the planet. We should remember that we are but one species among many and depend on them as they depend on us. For the time being at least this is the only planet we can all live on. We humans are collectively too arrogant.