Quotes from The Others: How Animals Made Us Human — Paul Shepard
d. 1996 United States
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Longer than memory we have known that each animal has its power and place, each a skill, virtue, wisdom, innocence — a special access to the structure and flow of the world. Each surpasses ourselves in some way. Together, sacred, they help hold the cosmos together, making it a joy and beauty to behold, but above all a challenge to understand as story, drama, and sacred play.
The Others: How Animals Made Us Human (1996)