Grey Goose's Four Seasons (Full Color Illustrations and Text)

Author: [Austria] Konrad Lorenz
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: The Karras documented the family and social life of greylag geese in their natural environment through 147 color photographs. Konrad Lorenz, with vivid language, narrated the little-known stories behind these photographs for those who appreciate them. They transformed from fluffy little balls into geese with wings in the blue sky, and they were filled with both wonder and joy. When autumn arrived, they both hoped that the growing geese would migrate south like wild geese, but they also feared losing them forever. In their eyes, they were a group of adorable children, emotionally rich beings. Like humans, they valued their families and cherished familial bonds. They also had their own pains and joys, their pursuit of the unknown world, and their attachment to their homeland and loved ones. They had sincere and loyal love, moments of frustrated indulgence, passionate pursuit, bitter loss, jealous struggles, and unwavering devotion. They also shared the modern human experience of sexuality and love, including homosexuality and bisexuality. Regardless, they lived naturally, authentically, and passionately. "In most cases, when humans approach free-living animals, they will flee; humans were driven out of the paradise of living with God's other creations. Now, if free-living animals fly to me from a distance, not because they haven't noticed me, but quite the opposite, because they have seen me and heard me—the banishment from paradise is momentarily revoked at this moment."