Conversation

“For me, the cat is my teacher,” he says. “Actually, not only cats, but trees, insects. ... They are all living without thinking about progress. They repeat the same thing and eventually die. That’s all. That’s the cycle of life, the cycle of nature — and only human beings are going, like, linear, and we ended up destroying the Earth because of that.”

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/10/12/film/cats-of-gokogu-shrine-kazuhiro-soda