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Brown Pelican
There is an ineluctable mystery to the lives of birds that I struggle to convey. I often think of one of my favorite quotes in relation to them, by Henry Beston:
“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals….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.”
Melissa, I am guilty as well. I wonder how man became so arrogant to think that other living beings do
not have individual personalities and character traits. Who are we to say they do not have emotions;
though they may be different than ours. Are we so narrow minded that we can not imagine animals having
their own mind set and values?