l'amour

during my last trip to the national zoo, i stopped into the "think tank"- a newer exhibit devoted to analyzing the thinking patterns of animals. there, i found great inspiration in the following quote by henry beston, a renowned animal scientist:

"we patronize the animals 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..."




above is an evocative clip from microcosmos, a documentary about the lives of small animals too often skimmed over, entitled l'amour d'escargots. enjoi-