jla@inuxd.UUCP (Joyce Andrews) (03/19/88)
From the Outermost House*:
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 traagic fate of having taken
form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly
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 extensions of the senses we have lost or
never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are
not brethern, they are not underlings; they are other nations,
caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow
prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.
-Henry Beston-
Reprinted from the newsletter of the Florida Keys Wild Bird
Rehabilitation Center
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Joyce Andrews King
ihnp4!inuxd!jla
AT&T, Indianapolis