In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with the objects of creation, there is a great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break forth into light and which will be the corollary and compliment to human ethics.

[Il y a dans les rapports de l’homme avec les bêtes, avec les fleurs, avec les objets de la création, toute une grande morale à peine entrevue encore, mais qui finira par se faire jour et qui sera le corollaire et le complément de la morale humaine.]

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
The Alps and Pyrenees [Alpes et Pyrénées], “The Pyrenees,” ch. 11 “Pampeluna,” 1843-08-11 (1867) [tr. Manson (1898)]
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