"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

Wildlife should be handled gently and with respect. They are not cute little things or toys. They are mothers, fathers and children. They live among us but have their own complex societies and rules. They see, hear, and understand more than we will ever know.

We should not despoil their habitats or food supply. We should value wildlife and ensure that they will always have territories where they can live free and flourish.