Other Nations (Earthlings Excerpt)

"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, 1928

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Pets & Animals

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• Henry
• Beston
• Earthlings
• Animals
• Nature
• Other
• Nations

[tessiebearkid]

thankyou for the upload.

[singing4every1]

You are AMAZING for posting this. This is one of the most amazing quotes I have ever heard, and I actually bought the book just because of the quote. Oh if only I could get everyone in America to see this movie!

[zaralefay]

god bless you

[Del350K4]

Thank you for posting this

[borges69]

very beautiful and true words,

everyone has to listen to this quato at least once,

thanks for your upload.

[singing4every1]

This is just amazing

[shumila]

Thank you. I love Phoenix's reading of this.