Train your children
from their earliest days to be infinitely tender and loving to animals. If an
animal be sick, let the children try to heal it, if it be hungry, let them feed
it, if thirsty, let them quench its thirst, if weary, let them see that it
rests.
- ‘Abdu'l-Baha (‘Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha’)