thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 10月13日 22時18分

Photograph by @andyparkinsonphoto/@thephotosociety
Mute swan and cygnet – An adult cradles her new-born cygnet in her expansive plumage, there can be no safer place on Earth for an infant baby. Ferociously protective I have seen these swans endure their fair share of heartbreak. This was the only cygnet that hatched this year, the year before none did. Watching her wait on the nest for day after day, devotedly turning the eggs slowly broke my heart. Humans love to imagine themselves as separate to the animal kingdom, divinely created, different, unique. I don’t see that, I see only the similarities. A demonstration of our astonishing arrogance could be seen recently as humanity watched on in sympathetic bewilderment as a female killer whale carried her dead offspring around for weeks afterwards. How could this be we thought, it’s almost as is she’s grieving! Of course she’s grieving, she was grieving just like we would, mourning her loss and doubtless experiencing the same unutterable devastation as anyone would to have experienced such horror. We like to think we are different, it’s what we believed in the dark ages when certain texts were constructed, humanity’s first attempt to explain our arrival on Earth. Now we have evidence, written into every single cell of our bodies, our DNA. This shows, unequivocally, by numbers in their trillions, that we aren’t dissimilar to animals, we are animals, just one of 8.7 million species on Earth, everyone a miracle of indescribable beauty and value, every one created by an unbroken chain of birth, adaptation and death that stretches back to the Primordial oceans some 1.6 billion years ago. Every one of us, every human, every swan and every killer whale, a walking, flapping, swimming miracle. If we are to have any chance of creating a future on this planet for our own offspring then first we must start to see the value in the lives of others because without them, we too will be lost. @andyparkinsonphoto @thephotosociety

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