You can't explain what love is.
You can sing about it. You can dance about it.
You can paint about it, write about it.
You can try to express love in so many different ways.
But...
dogs spend their lives showing us what love is.
Dogs will keep being kind and keep loving us
until we understand what love means.
If people could love each other the ways dogs love us
the world would be a different place.
My friends were my animals.
They became my family. They didn't let me down.
I could trust them.
I could communicate with them.
As a vet, I came to understand that my journey in life
is about compassion.
Showing compassion to the earth,
to the plants, to the animals.
But most of all actually showing compassion to myself.
And that's the hardest part
because we're so busy looking outside of ourselves.
One often hears the advice
that one has to learn to love one's self
before one can love somebody else.
And I actually think it works the other way around.
If somebody doesn't love themselves
they need to start loving something else.
Be it plants, animals, art, music...
If they can fall in love, really fall in love,
they can learn to love themselves
because they understand what love is.
Find the thing that gives you a spark.
Find what lights up your heart.
Something that appeals to you,
that makes you smile,
and moves you.
That's what is speaking to you.
I'm in love with the earth. I'm in love with my farm.
Because my farm is a small piece of the earth
that I'm able to really nurture
and look after.
We are all fed by different things.
Growing vegetables... it was always my happy place.
My romance is with the earth.
Nurturing my farm in this little corner of the world
is the only thing within my power to do.
I want to change the world.
But I don't have
the power to change the world in that sense.
But if I change my world, then that holds power.
When I walk into my garden
and I see what's growing
it feeds my soul.
I'm beaming with pride and pleasure
among the cabbages.
It's not romantic because it's hard work.
It's not all sunshine and roses.
I've got a lot of roses.
They only flower once a year in November.
The rest of the time they're just leafy and thorny.
But they're still there, and they're rooted.
And they look forward to
their time to blossom
and make the world beautiful.
So it is with life.
I've been through a very dormant phase
for quite a long time.
You change and you grow.
And that change is painful.
It's growing pains
still
at every stage in life.
You sow your seeds
and you watch the little seedlings emerging
and growing
and reaching maturity
and going to flower and fruit
and dying.
It makes one realise ones own mortality.
But also potential.
The potential to be what you are destined to be.
And you can grow and develop into
whatever you want to be.
You create your own life.
Keep doing
what it is that you feel you need to do
in this world
one day at a time.
We come to earth, we live and we die.
What we make of that
is up to each of us.
To all of you who have contributed
for those of you who have shared our films
for those of you who have written out comments
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