For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals. - Marcello Malpighi
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. - Eric Hoffer
Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky