“When a man, who is by comparison a god, stoops and stops, risking his life and well-being in an attempt to aid a small injured creature who may live for only a fraction of his lifetime… in this act, the creature may be saved. But the man? The man is rescued from a fate even worse than death; for the man is rescued from the unthinkable impoverishment of his soul that resulted from his self-imposed isolation from all of the relationships that were his extended family in Nature. And in this? The small creature whose hardship calls his heart to wake once more from deathlike slumber… is as much the hero… as the man.”

— an anonymous informant