They are all beasts of burden in a sense,.... : Quote by Rebecca Solnit

“ They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech. ”

Rebecca Solnit
  • From : A Field Guide to Getting Lost
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