Animals, said the writer and naturalist Henry Beston, "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 splendour and travail of the earth."
Quoted by Vandana Singh in her Strange Horizons essay, Living With the Other , well worth checking out.
It made me think about my uncle, Bill Devall, often called the "Father of Deep Ecology in North America" for his eco-philosophical writings and Deep Ecology text used in Env 101 classes, as well as his teaching at Humboldt State U. He died on the anniversary of Stonewall, a couple years ago now. Sort of fitting, since he wrote one of the earlier sociology studies of gay men. I had issues with some of the finer points of political philosophy, but a moment of non-anthropocentrism seems like a good way to start the day.
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