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Bearing Witness: The Animal Dialogues
"It was a fortuitous flip to the essay on pronghorns that persuaded me
to pick up Craig Childs' The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in
the Wild. In each intimately wrought tale on antelopes, hawks, and
red-spotted toads, I found a writer and translator more versed in the
tongues of the non-human world than I will ever be. Childs honors the
weight and magnitude of his encounters with creatures large and small,
preserving the distance and mystery that comes with each meeting. He
strives to convey in words what cannot be expressed in words, and in
each essay I see one who does what I wish to do myself: To connect with
respect, to speak for the voiceless, to bear witness to life and death
in their eternal splendor."
https://ekostories.com/2015/10/13/childs-animal-dialogues/
