Earthlings

Quoted from the documentary Earthlings.

Since we all inhabit the earth, all of us are considered Earthlings. There is no sexism, no racism or speciesism in the term Earthling. It encompasses each and every one of us. Warm or cold blooded, animal, vertebrae or invertebrate. Bird, reptile, amphibian, fish and human alike..we need another and wiser and perhaps more mystical concept of animals. …we patronize them for their incompleteness. For their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein 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 extensions 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.