When we care for something it is with passion and commitment of the heart.
"It's remarkable how it will bring a more human side to the inmate by caring for something," she said.
While stewardship speaks to a relationship based on duty, "when one cares for something it is something one does with passion and love".
"I think we recognize that people sometimes care for something other than a doughnut, so we have bagels and great muffins," Mr. Kimmel said.
When he does care for something — cognitive science, for example — he is all in favor of training people to do it, even though, as he admits, many of the methods and assumptions of modern science are counter-intuitive.
While out to dinner with my spouse one evening, our server asked, "Would you care for something to drink, ma'am?" I shook my head, signaling disapproval, and motioned for her to come closer.
I know plants can't slobber me with wet kisses and bark with delight when I return home; plants are not loyal or loving, or fluffy and fun – but they are helping me to learn how to care for something other than myself, so that is probably a good warmup for something more sentient in the distant future.
Collaboration, people trying to work for and care for something bigger than just themselves.
"We live in a kind of frenzy of consumerism which forgets that the true source of human happiness is not in the consuming but in the cultivation, in seeing something grow, or caring for something that is not yourself.
We have little incentive to manage and care for something we are taught has no dignity.
