Until lately we have persistently regarded wild things 

 as mere living targets, and have seen in them nothing but 

 savage or timorous creatures, killing, or escaping being 

 killed, quite forgetting that they have their homes, their 

 mates, their problems and their sorrows — in short, a home- 

 life that is their real life, and very often much larger and 

 more important than that of which our hostile standpoint has 

 given us such fleeting glimpses. — Ernest Thompson Seton. 



Just as surely as we find among the wild animals the 

 germs or beginnings of man's material make-up, so surely 

 may we find there also the foundations and possibilities of 

 what he has attained to in the world of mind. This thought 

 lends new interest to the doings of animals in their home 

 life, and I have sought among these our less erbrethren for 

 evidences of it — in the rudiments of speech, sign-language 

 musical sense, aesthetics, amusements, home-making, social 

 system, sanitation, wed-law, morals personal and territorial 

 property law, etc. — Ernest Thompson Seton. 



