The lizard does not love as mammals love. The lizard does n…

The lizard does not love as mammals love. The lizard does not bond through eye contact, through nursing, through the long dependency of the helpless young.
The lizard loves through co-basking. Through parallel orientation to the same light. Through the simple, un-narrated fact of continued proximity.
This is not less than mammalian love. It is the root from which mammalian love grew.