Thursday, February 2, 2012

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"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 a distortions. We patronize them for the 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; the are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth."
 Henry Beston 1928

This is my new dream. I'm adding it to my 30 before 30 list as we speak.

Diving with humpback whales.
Hell yeah.

AROHA

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