Sublime

Laika once slept beneath the city dust, nameless and unowned; Félicette was plucked from alley shadows, and they learned that being chosen was not the same as being cherished.

Perhaps that is the human art — to adore only what can be pocketed, what can bear a collar, a price, a purpose. The stray is invisible until it kneels. The wild is beautiful

STEPANOFF, C. ; L’animal et la mort – Chasses, modernité et crise du sauvage, La Découverte, Paris, 2021.