Thought I'd share/Henry Beston quote - YorkieTalk.com Forums

Woogie Man · 06-13-2008, 06:45 PM

“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......I found this wonderful quote today. It's from The Outermost House by Henry Beston. Thought y'all might enjoy it.

greenmsgo84 · 06-13-2008, 07:22 PM

Thanks for sharing.

Wylie's Mom · 06-13-2008, 08:05 PM

FANTASTIC. Beautiful. Have you ever read some of Milan Kundera's quotes about animals or Kant's? Stunning. Even if you do a Yahoo search on "animal quotes", you'll find good ones - but Kundera's just slay me. And, the one in my siggie is my favorite short one about animals. Thanks for posting that.

06-13-2008, 06:45 PM	#1
Woogie Man Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Mississippi Posts: 2,564	Thought I'd share/Henry Beston quote “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......I found this wonderful quote today. It's from The Outermost House by Henry Beston. Thought y'all might enjoy it.

06-13-2008, 07:22 PM	#2
greenmsgo84 Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: bay area Posts: 145	Thanks for sharing. __________________ Gina Faith, Yoda, and Keiko Member of the Official Teapot Club & Member of the California Yorkies Club

06-13-2008, 08:05 PM	#3
Wylie's Mom Furbutts = LOVE Donating Member Moderator Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 35,889 Blog Entries: 2	FANTASTIC. Beautiful. Have you ever read some of Milan Kundera's quotes about animals or Kant's? Stunning. Even if you do a Yahoo search on "animal quotes", you'll find good ones - but Kundera's just slay me. And, the one in my siggie is my favorite short one about animals. Thanks for posting that. __________________ ~ A friend told me I was delusional. I nearly fell off my unicorn. ~ °¨¨¨°ºOº°¨¨¨° Ann \| Pfeiffer \| Marcel Verdel Purcell \| Wylie \| Artie °¨¨¨°ºOº°¨¨¨°