Riaan Lourens

Beautiful movie - so many ''worlds'' are playing off around us all the time. This movie shows that when we care to be still and really look and listen with compassion and without the filter of human self importance and arrogance, there is still so much to stand in awe of. From the animals we mindlessly abuse on farms, to the wild birds we ignore daily in our gardens, to this magnificent alien like creature living under the sea - all of them have so much to teach us. Quote by Henry Beston: “We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical 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 a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than 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.”