Sunday, December 09, 2012

Who deigns to design nature’s creatures for the appreciation of man?

“I, a grown man who had survived a terrifying war, the loss of a wife, and, of course, many fine friends, had let the life on one insignificant, no-account, one-legged bundle of almost worthless feathers move me to compassion.” Why? Why do certain, special creatures invade our hearts? The writer Mel Ellis, above, in 1973 refers to a mallard duck rescued from a muskrat trap in 1966. Ellis later philosophizes in 1970, that ... “ at the expense of being called anthropomorphic bleeding heart, I’ve got to believe that it took some sort of extraordinary kind of courage, some special effort beyond the basic laws of governing survival” for his duck Peg Leg to have survived and weathered, though injured again, a severe winter. Mel continues: “I think I must amend that now to say that among animals there seems to be many kinds of courage, just as there are many kinds of survival, some of which do not even have anything to do with physical death.” Who? Who deigns to design nature’s creatures for the appreciation of man?

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