For the animals 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 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