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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Wooster and Jeeves Take "The Winter's Tale"
Animal Imagery
Wooster and Jeeves, Winters Tale
Wooster and Jeeves Take "The Winter's Tale"
Animal Imagery
Wooster and Jeeves, Winters Tale

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.

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Animal Imagery
Wooster and Jeeves, Winters Tale
Animal Imagery in Literature
A Boy and A Bear In A Boat, Oh My:)
A Boy and A Bear In A Boat, Oh My:)

"...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

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The Sea Raiders Weary, Determined by H.G. Wells
The Sea Raiders Weary, Determined by H.G. Wells

"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

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Dashwood Sisters Navigate Sea Monsters, Dark Secrets and More
Dashwood Sisters Navigate Sea Monsters, Dark Secrets and More

"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

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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.

When The day breaks, tilby/forbis

When The day breaks, tilby/forbis

 

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
Shock The Monkey
Shock The Monkey

"Fox the fox, Rat the rat You can ape the ape, I know about that, There is one thing you must be sure of, I can't take any more. Darling, don't you Monkey with me Monkey. Monkey, Monkey, Monkey, Don't you know you're going to shock the Monkey, Shock the Monkey" - Peter Gabriel

 

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White Rabbit: Jefferson Airplane
White Rabbit: Jefferson Airplane

"And if you go chasing rabbits, And you know you're going to fall, Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar, Has given you the call... Call Alice, When she was just small, When the men on the chessboard Get up and tell you where to go, And you've just had some kind of mushroom, And your mind is moving low, Go ask Alice, I think she'll know "- Jefferson Airplane { The White Rabbit }

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Carnival of Animals
Carnival of Animals

The animals are having a carnival, and the guests are arriving. There's the  majestic lion, the braying mules, the dancing elephant and the bouncy kangaroos. Even the fossils join in with a fast and rattly dance. Everyone is invited!

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Barbar The Elephant
Barbar The Elephant

"The Barbar the Elephant book is sitting in front of me. I pick it up and start reading it. I remember reading it as a small Boy and enjoying it and imagining that I was friends with Babar, his constant Companion during all of his adventures. He went to the moon, I went with him. He fought Tomb Raiders in Egypt, I fought alongside him. He rescued his Elephant girlfriend from Ivory Hunters on the Savanna, I coordinated the gateway. I loved that goddamn Elephant and I loved being his friend. In a childhood full of unhappiness and rage. Barbar is one of the few pleasant memories that I have. Me and Barbar, kicking some motherfukcking ass." - James Frey

 

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Peter And The Wolf
Peter And The Wolf

Peter and the mates encounter the wolf: The Wolf: ( snarling ) ROOOAAARRRR! Peter points his pop-gun at the wolf, while shaking in fear Narrator: Oh, that wolf is everywhere! Peter, do something! Peter triggers his pop-gun which hits the wolf on the nose, but the wolf doesn't flee Narrator: Oh no!

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