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The intensity, not to be confused with activity, of certain non-human animals can move us: it can pierce into, and send ripples throughout, our world.
Non-human animals punch or reveal a hole in our world—a path in a forest, a plunge in the ocean—with which we aren’t, and never could be, entirely familiar.
The mysteriousness of the other means we never lay bare their world, and yet there’s an opening that opens elsewhere and otherwise.