“Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.” HumansNamesSpeakAnimalCreaturesSilentDumbCrowInappropriateHoot Author:Winifred Holtby
“I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action.” IfsBodyActionGivenAnimalEatingRootsIf I CouldSignificanceRitualGrainFillingUtilitarian Book:Letters to a Friend Source: Letters to a Friend