It cheers up when watered well. It weeps when the bud is violently plucked. Animals have five senses and man six senses. The intelligent mental man must treat plants and animals with tender love and compassion. Man as the most evolved soul, as the paragon of living beings, is obliged to practise non-violence in thought, word and deed.
Soft mercy marks the human from thc beast.
The lion and tiger are carnivorous by instinct. Man is not a human tiger. The man who kills screaming life for food is dead to mercy and compassion. The cow and goat give milk. The oxen draw carts and plough fields.