“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.”
― Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
Thank you, Kate Bird! Beautiful, and yes, Mr. Beston's sentiments are felt and known with a twist of Nations and Brethren. Keep your heart beating strong, dear Sister!
From a Subscriber who also happens to work on Capitol Hill to reduce harm to animals, which helps all of us: “Just fantastic, Robin! Love it! So well done. You’re such a good writer!”- WP
Keep up your good work Loud Hawk!
This is what I carry in my heart:
“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.”
― Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
Thank you, Kate Bird! Beautiful, and yes, Mr. Beston's sentiments are felt and known with a twist of Nations and Brethren. Keep your heart beating strong, dear Sister!
From a Subscriber who also happens to work on Capitol Hill to reduce harm to animals, which helps all of us: “Just fantastic, Robin! Love it! So well done. You’re such a good writer!”- WP