The swamp pheasant has to walk ten paces for one peck and a hundred paces for one drink, but it doesn't want to be kept in a cage. Though you treat it like a king, its spirit won't be content.

#Zhuangzi (chapter 3, The Secret of Caring for Life, Watson trans.)

#Daoism #Taoism #ChuangTzu

daoists for the ethical treatment of swamp pheasants