ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: ridecamp-d Digest V97 #525 -- Training our horses: something to ponder

Re: ridecamp-d Digest V97 #525 -- Training our horses: something to ponder

Wild Thing (wildt@flash.net)
Sun, 10 Aug 1997 18:26:32 -0700 (PDT)

This quote was in the latest issue of Hoofprints, the magazine of the
Hooved Animal Humane Society. Something we should remember when we are
with our horses.
" 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. 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 that we have lost or
never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. 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." [Henry Beston, The Outermost House].
HAHS is a very worthy cause and does wonderful work on behalf of abused
horses. --
Margaret C. Ling
Houston, Tx
wildt@flash.net

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