Jack Turner---The song of the White Pelican

Perhaps it is time to realize that the knowledge won from hard data is limited; perhaps it is time to allow wild animals to establish the degree of intimacy between us.” Wild animals always can express what we are, what we are going to express. Observing ourselves in the nature from the aspect of the sound of white pelican, this point is really attractive. Jack Turner shows us a white pelican’s soaring in different environment, like in the mountain, the thunderheads and so on. Those descriptions remind me of the Song of the Stormy Petrel written by Maxim Gorky. Gorky uses Petrel to express a kind of brave to face the darkness. But what Turner wants to express that soaring of white pelican is a simple expression of a kind of wilderness, passion and joy. He uses sounds of pelican to express a kind of emotion people have to show us , we should be like white pelican “soaring” whenever we wants.