Because once you start noticing organisms, once you have a name for particular beasts, birds and flowers, you can't help seeing life and the order in it, just where it has always been, all around you.

因为一旦你开始注意生物，你对特殊野兽、鸟类和花朵都有它们的名字，你就不由自主地观察生命并且命名它，就像它本来在的地方，我们身边。

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And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground-everything that has the breath of life in it-I give every green plant for food.

至于地上的走兽和空中的飞鸟，并各样爬在地上有生命的物，我将青草赐给它们作食物。

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Entranced, I see fish playing in the water, birds flitting past cloud tips, beasts of all descriptions racing down the prairie, and insects chirping in the field.

仿佛看到鱼儿在浪中嘻戏；鸟儿在云端飞翔；百兽在原野奔跑；小虫在田间鸣叫。

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The hieroglyphic qualities and broad brush strokes of two of his masterpieces, "Ancient Script Mandala" (1968) and "Frolicking Birds and Beasts in Yin Script" (1969), are clearly influenced by the more primitive scripts found in bronze castings.

WSJ: The Vision and Calligraphy of Aoyama San'u | Tokyo National Museum | Transformational Characters | By Michael Judge

He was like his father: his father also got angry whenever he went out hunting, waging war on the birds and the beasts as if they were ferocious enemies, expending every last bit of malice in his heart while he was in the forest, and then returning home a kind, sensitive family man.

NEWYORKER: Among Animals and Plants