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name: "Henry Beston on Animals as Other Nations"
date: 2026-06-21
link: "https://wordsmith.org/words/brave_new_world.html"
linkText: "wordsmith.org"
source: "A.Word.A.Day"
topics: [words-and-humor, outdoors-and-nature]
tags: [nature, animals, wonder, awad]
description: "On animals as other nations, not underlings."
---

> 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 splendour and travail of the earth.

— Henry Beston, naturalist (1 June 1888–1968). A.Word.A.Day Thought for Today.