#with just a touch of my burning hand i'll send my astro zombies to rape this world

[kaccvcate]

In Muskoke tradition I was taught that animal races are older than humans, and since we're new on the earth we can gain wisdom through studying them. I think nonhuman animals demonstrate their higher intelligence every day, to me the evidence is quite overwhelming.

"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 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."

- The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod by Henry Beston, 1928