"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 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."

--Henry Beston (The Outermost House)

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In the US, Eagles are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.

On June 28, 2007, the Interior Department took the American Bald Eagle off the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants.

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All things bright and beautiful
All creatures great and small
All things wise and wonderful
The Lord God made them all