126 // she might be holding something in
"There are some men for whom a tree has no reality until they think
of cutting it down, for whom an animal has no value until it enters
the slaughterhouse, men who never look at anything until they
decided to abuse it and who never even notice what they do not
want to destroy. These men can hardly know the silence of love:
for their love is the absorption of another person's silence into
their own noise."
- Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island