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Ezra recommended the classic nature book, quoting a passage he uses as a personal motto about how animals should not be measured by humans.
Well, one of them I quoted from earlier, and that is The Outermost House by Henry Beston. It says, we need another and a wiser and perhaps more mystical concept of animals for the animal shall not be...
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Ezra recommended the classic nature book, quoting a passage he uses as a personal motto about how animals should not be measured by humans.
Well, one of them I quoted from earlier, and that is The Outermost House by Henry Beston. It says, we need another and a wiser and perhaps more mystical concept of animals for the animal shall not be measured by man. 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.
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Ezra cited it as one of his favorite books, quoting a passage that framed his view of animal life.
One of them I quoted from earlier, and that is The Outermost House by Henry Beston.