The Net of Life

I heard this on NPR yesterday and found it beautifully written. It really touched my heart. A passage in regards to our human connection with animals... and how they should be respected. We're not 'above them' we just share the space with them.

"The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension 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 splendor and travail of the earth."

Henry Beston, The Outermost House, 1928