"An animal is as if bewitched during loving-time. In all its feelings it belongs to another dimension … For a brief period of intoxication it is a citizen of another world sky-high above the ordinary cares of life. Something in the animal reaches out beyond the individual, to the life of the species, which wanders over generations, over millennia … The time of love’s feelings becomes a time of liberated aesthetic life, a time of beauty."
Wilhelm Bölsche, Love Life in Nature (1898)