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HENRY BESTON QUOTE: WINTER 2018 |
A Lovely and Favorite Quote of Mine written by Henry Beston in 1928, from “The Outermost House”
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.” -- Henry Beston, “The Outermost House”, 1928
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I
particularly like this quote because it is a lovely piece that
reminds me of how admirable and awesome all animals are in relation
to humans. The fact that he wrote it in 1928 still applies to our
present balance in today’s world of animals and humans, and the
delicate nature of our relationships. 
Beston writes “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.
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