“In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.”
“Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me.”
“Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.”
“Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.”
More Edward Hoagland quote about:
