We Are Animal In Our Blood And

Human Language Is Lit With Animal Life: We Play Cats-cradle Or Have Hare-brained Ideas; We Speak Of Badgering, Or Outfoxing Someone; To Squirrel Something Away And To Ferret It Out.

Cultures Have Long Heard Wisdom In Non-human Voices: Apollo, God Of Music, Medicine And Knowledge, Came To Delphi In The Form Of A Dolphin. But Dolphins, Which Fill The Oceans With Blipping And Chirping, And Whales, Which Mew And Caw In Ultramarine Jazz - A True Rhapsody In Blue - Are Hunted To The Edge Of Silence.

The Losses Of The Natural World Are Our Loss, Their Silence Silences Something Within The Human Mind.

All Humans Are Essentially Wild Creatures And Hate Confinement. We Need What Is Wild, And We Thrill To It, Our Wildness Bubbling Over With An Anarchic Joie De Vivre. We Glint When The Wild Light Shines. The More Suffocatingly Enclosed We Are - Tamed By Television, Controlled By Mortgages And Bureaucracy - The Louder Our Wild Genes Scream In Aggression, Anger And Depression.

The Silencing Of The Rainforests Is A Double Deforestation, Not Only Of Trees But A Deforestation Of The Mind's Music, Medicine And Knowledge.