The Learned Pig

Art – Thinking – Nature – Writing

Tag: Thomas Thwaites

  • Being a Beast

    Being a Beast

    Mankind has celebrated a close connection with the animal kingdom since our Stone Age ancestors dressed in furs and painted bison on cave walls. Mythology abounds with tales of creatures which are half-man, half-beast, from werewolves to centaurs. In the transition from hunter-gatherers to city dwellers, we have gradually lost touch with the land, becoming…