John Burger (1926–2017) was a lifelong student of looking and exploring ways to see. In the essays collected in this collection, he chooses animals as the object of observation, because he is convinced that it is necessary to look at them - otherwise a person as a species cannot cope with his loneliness. “Being alone, we are forced to admit that we were created, like everything else. Only our souls, if spurred on, remember the original source, silently, without words. Berger managed not only to remember the forgotten, but also to find the right words to express it.This publication was published as part of the joint publishing program of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and Ad Marginem Press LLC