[pyrnet] Just a thought

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Hi all,
I originally read this from Linda W. at one time that She posted it to this board~~
When I walked into the Vet's office today, there it was again~~I asked for a copy, got it, will probably frame it~~for some reason, it "strikes a chord "~~~

                           SITTING AT THE TABLE OF LIFE
"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mythical concept of animals....We patronize them for their incompletness, for their tragic fate of having taken a 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 Brethern, they are not Underlingings, 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     
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