Sad that the only place to discuss animals here is in a food thread. (I never think of food when I consider animals or am stalking them with my eyes. I don't know that I think at all then. Hmm, I think all I feel is wonder then. Yes, that was it. Wonder at how such excruciating beauty is possible at all. Wonder at how they are so free of me, in a way that I am not free of them, nor can be: I must look at them until they wander out of sight, while they do not heed me; I must know they are there and exist, they do not care. This freedom, independence of theirs is itself a part of the nature of their beauty.)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by a complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge, seeing thereby a feather magnified, the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic 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 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."
â Henry Beston<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> Always beautiful.
Good to know there are people that have such sentiments (there are many in the world). And he expresses himself beautifully.
I differ in that they <i>are</i> my brethren. I claim that kinship. Because I <i>am</i> part of it, and will not be severed. It is one of the oldest memories of feeling I have.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by a complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge, seeing thereby a feather magnified, the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic 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 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."
â Henry Beston<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> Always beautiful.Good to know there are people that have such sentiments (there are many in the world). And he expresses himself beautifully.
I differ in that they <i>are</i> my brethren. I claim that kinship. Because I <i>am</i> part of it, and will not be severed. It is one of the oldest memories of feeling I have.