I am typing this in a cold basement, the only place where I have internet connection this evening, so to make it easier, I will type a bulleted list of some thoughts. By Thursday I will post a more official written response to Encounters with Nature.
- Hunting as sport? Consumption of meat? Taking pictures of the kill.
- If hunting is part of the natural life cycle and people who hunt are aware of this and are hunting for their own personal, ecological reasons, balancing nature, etc. then why do animals hunt/kill humans? Fear? Excitement? Natural event? Evolutions? Equality?
- What if bears, as often as humans hunted them, came out of the wilderness, walked the city streets, killed a napping person, took a picture, collected them, and then walked back home. Is this not the equivalent of what human hunters do?
- Ways we can but often don't relate to animals.
- What is equality as far as humans and wildlife are concerned? If we are equal or should be or could be...
- Turn animal behavior around and introduce it as human behavior. Trading places - same effect and/or outcome?
- How myths, folklore and children's stories have influenced our view of animals
- p 11 - reducing to elements, p 13 - animals as health of mind, p 21 - children's games
- "The other" as the animal. Who else do we treat as the other? Disabled? Different ethnic groups? Children? Elderly?
- p 59 - How do we confine animals?
- How was Grandma relating to wildlife on a somewhat human level? Naming birds, helping birds, Inviting them to her home
- Learning the language of others
- Dreamlike desire to connect to animals. Influenced by fairytales? Folklore?
- Wild animals stay wild?
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