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Such feelings and attitudes may be entertained, as well, even toward objects, particularly those with whom a close or personal relationship may be sustained. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 48, Sentence #151)

His relationship to his encountered reality is thus likely to be far more personal than that of the average individual of Earth. He is likely to see nature not as alien and different, but as congenial and animate. Do not tides come and go, and seasons change; does not water rush over rocks, and snow fall and melt; does not night follow day and day night? It is not unusual for a woodsman to ask forgiveness of the tree he intends to fell; or a hunter to respect the animal he hunts, or which hunts him. Such feelings and attitudes may be entertained, as well, even toward objects, particularly those with whom a close or personal relationship may be sustained. "Serve me well," says the assassin to his dagger, the woodsman to his ax, the fisherman to his net and trident, the scribe to his pen, the warrior to his sword. I looked upon the broken lyre in the grasp of Thrasymedes, and, oddly, felt sorrow, and that a wrong had been done. "It is only an artifact," I reminded myself, "only a meaningless object". - (Avengers of Gor)