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Writer reflects on sacred lives of wild animals
Original: 'The animal lives here have no numbers, no names. They are simply a people, nations of their own kind with lives as sacr
A passage describes the animals of a wild place as living without numbers or names, existing as nations of their own kind whose lives are as sacred as human lives. The writer describes learning their different ways and framing all species as one shared life and breath. Readers are sharing the passage for its meditation on kinship with the natural world.
Why now: Its poetic framing of animals as sovereign peoples resonates with discussions about nature, respect and coexistence.
Evidence
- 'The animal lives here have no numbers, no names. They are simply a people, nations of their own kind with lives as sacred as any of ours. I learn their ways, all different, all unlike human ways, yet all together we are one life, one breath, all part of this same shared… · JD_Cunningham@sunny.garden · 6
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