People instinct?

Read through chapter 10 by Friday, and complete the text by Tuesday, Feburary 19. Be prepared for an assessment of the entire text next week.
Write a minimum of two dialectic journal entries and comment on two student posts. Choose one salient quote and:
1. Explain what the quotation means in the context of the text
2. Why it is important/interesting to you.

Pg 273-74 “All other expressions lie in a winter sleep life is simply one continual watch…and store it up as a reserve against the onslaught of nothingness.”
This was the part where Paul was talking about how we gain our animal traits when in war. Once again connecting our survival to animals, and how they save us in the long run. I feel that this quote was a very strong quote that connects to what the book is about and how many of the soldiers were feeling at the time, and in the time of battle. Reading this part of the book, really made me realize how important humane nature, and animal instinct is. This is how the men in war go through battle, they have to watch all of their friends, and comrades die, and are still willing to go on with an attitude of an animal, and move on. This brought up an interesting question while I was reading; what other experiences do we go through, that are aided by the traits and mentality of animals? We think we are so above animals, when it seems we are almost always acting like them when it comes down to the basics of life.