...found whilst reading veterinary journals over my lunch break:

We need another and a wiser... concept of animals. Remote from universal
nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the
creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby... the whole image
in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate
for having taken form so far gelow ourselves. And thein do we err.... In a world
older and more complete that ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with
the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we
shall never hear. 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 and author (1888-1968)

Today is definitely an "I want to be a Veterninarian day!"