A new summer read

Summer is coming up (actually it's here, sort of. not officially. anyways..) and I realized that I can't be sitting on my butt for the next few months without picking up a book. It's hard for me to really get into a book unless it's something I can relate to. Recently, this has been books on food, health, and the Earth. Searching on Amazon, I came across this book...

The picture portraying Jesus looked very LDS-like, so I googled the author and found that he is actually LDS! The book is full of quotes from church leaders regarding kindness to animals and loving our planet. Here are some quotes from the book that I found on the author's website:

Man’s dominion is a call to service, not a license to exterminate.

*Hugh Nibley

Nature helps us to see and understand God. . . . Love of nature is akin to the love of God; the two are inseparable.

*Joseph F. Smith

Can any man who has walked beneath the stars at night, can anyone who has seen the touch of spring upon the land doubt the hand of divinity in creation? . . . All of [the] beauty in the earth bears the fingerprint of the Master Creator.

*Gordon B. Hinckley

I love to view the things around me; to gaze upon the sun, moon, and stars; to study the planetary systems, and the world we inhabit . . . I could not help but believe there was a God, if there was no such thing as religion in the world.

*John Taylor

Kindness to animals and to all living things is one good way of expressing true religion.

*Joseph F. Smith

A true Latter-day Saint is kind to animals, is kind to every created thing, for God has created all.

*David O. McKay

If we maltreat our animals, or each other, the spirit within us, our traditions, and the Bible, all agree in declaring it is wrong.

*Brigham Young

Cruelty to animals is always the sign of a weak and little mind, whereas we invariably find really great men distinguished by their humanity.

*George Q. Cannon

What is even more serious than the wrongs inflicted upon dumb animals is the habit of wrong doing, for doing wrong to animals is but a stepping stone to the doing of wrong to our fellowmen.

*Joseph F. Smith

I think this is the book I've been waiting for! I haven't read it yet, but I'll let you know how it is when I do. I'm grateful that finally someone in the church has compiled quotes and teachings about how animals are not here solely for human consumption, and the Earth is not something to destroy or harm.