This is quote is attributed to Henry Beston who wrote the Outermost House:
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 and for their tragic fate in having taken form so far below ourselves.
And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animals shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complet, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost nor ever attained, living by voices we shall never hear.
They are not bretheren. They are not underlings. They are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.
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