Literature
Animals are imagined and referenced in all aspects of literature in religious texts, fairy tales, and poems for example. Add these works to your library and gift to a humane education program.
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Animal Imagery in Literature
"...They say there go Grizzly Bear got no clothes to wear
They say I'm all hung up bein' nowhere
Yeah but the girls they love my clows and my great big chompin' jaws
Lemme tell you that I howl yowl and growl like a grizzly bear...." - Shel Silverstein, Grizzly Bear
"In a minute, regarding this again, he perceived that his judgment was in fault, for over this struggle circled a number of birds, jackdaws and gulls for the most part, the latter gleaming blindingly when the sunlight smote their wings, and they seemed minute in comparison with it. And his curiosity was, perhaps, aroused all the more strongly because of his first insufficient explanations." - HG Wells The Sea Raiders
"Lady Middleton piqued herself upon the eleogance and extravagance of her table, and all her domestic arrangements, she loved to surprise English visitors with displays of hospitality native to her homeland, such as flavouring her soups with monkey urine and not telling anyone she had done so util the bowl had been drained." - Ben H. Winters, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
Film
The moving image is powerful tool which simultaneously invites questions and explore answers which help us understand our relationship to the non human beings we share the the planet with. Real, imagined, animated or live action the pieces we've shared here ask you to take another look at how your choices impact our environment and how animals respond and are impacted as a result. Join us as we celebrate the contribution nature has made to the moving image.
Design
Natures influence on the design world can be readily seen in, tools, textiles, art and architecture. Designing a home, office or retreat with a animal, terra, marine or ocean theme can make any space even more inviting. Shop these products we love to support our charity.
Music
How do you translate the sound of a bird, the roar of a tiger, the howl of a wolf to music? Animals are referenced in classical compositions, as rhetorical subjects in the titles of contemporary music close your eyes, listen - imagine.
Animal Imagery In Music
The Bear
The play contains one of the most famous Shakespearean stage directions: Exit, pursued by a bear, presaging the offstage death of Antigonus. It is not known whether Shakespeare used a real bear from the London bear-pits ( 23) or an actor in bear costume. The Royal Shakespeare Company, in one production of this play, used a large sheet of silk which moved and created shapes, to symbolize both the bear and the gale in which Antigonus is traveling.