"We need another and 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 animals

      shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than

      ours, they moved 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 splendor and travail of the earth."

      Naturalist Henry Beston (1888-1968)