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About animals and us

Discussion in 'General Dog Chat' started by woof, Jan 31, 2023.

  1. woof

    woof Forums Enthusiast

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    This is a post based on a discussion generated in the Sheltie Chat forum on animals - it is from Henry Beston and one of my favorites:


    “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
     
  2. Sharon7

    Sharon7 Moderator

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    I really like this. :)
     
    woof and Ron Atkinson like this.

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