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 knowledgeand sees thereby a feather magnified and 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, 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.
From the Outermost House by Henry Beston.
Distributed by All Creatures Animal Caring Society, 2006. P.O. Box 3664 / San Rafael, CA
94912415-456-1941
