More quotes from my class text

[urbpan]

"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 will 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 splendor and travail of the earth."

-Henry Beston in The Outermost House

Comments

[wakarusa.livejournal.com]

I LOVE THIS BOOK.

He and Loren Eisely were some of Carson's major, major literary inspirations in writing Silent Spring. I firmly believe that if Eiseley hadn't written the Immense Journey, then Carson might have gone ahead with her evolution project, instead of getting sidetracked into Silent Spring.

[momomom.livejournal.com]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guess what arrived today! I would never have ordered this book without having read your quotes here.

Thank you.

I'm starting with the Ursula LeGuin essay.