The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with 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 splendor and travail of the earth. -Henry Beston. Wonderful and lyrical ... Seems similar to Loren Eiseley … Man is an animal as well … All animals have reached where they have through evolution spanning millions of years … I think of the planet as it would have been in the age of the dinosaurs … a reptilian world. Go back a hundred thousand years in time and the planet was lush with greenery and mammals would have been roaming all over the North American and South American and African plains … wildebeests and zebras and bisons and lions and tigers and wild horses perhaps … not many humans around. Today, humans have com...
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