Detail of "Eider Duck," plate 246 of Birds of America, published 1827–1838, by John James Audubon.
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"Perhaps it is those eyes. Yes, it's those eyes. It always is. They take in the whole of the world, even as they ignore it."
—page 39, RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR by Philip Hoare
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"Animals see the open with their whole eyes."
"Or maybe an animal, incapable of speech, lifts its head / and quietly sees right through us."
—from "The Eighth Elegy" by Rainer Maria Rilke, as translated by Gary Miranda
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