Photography by Mark Hopkins

Creatures

The self-sufficiency of the world's wildlife has always fascinated me, and I hope that through these photographs I've succeeded in capturing a bit of it.  Henry Beston described it best in his lovely little book 'The Outermost House' back in 1928 when he wrote:

"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. …… We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves.  And therein we err, and greatly err.  For the animal shall not be measured by man.  In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.  They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth."