在我看来，骆驼算不上珍稀动物，甚至都算不上野生动物。前者是因为小时候在鞍山的219公园就见过骆驼，不论是两个驼峰还是浓烈的气味，都留下深刻印象。后者是因为骆驼长期以来都是载运工具，所谓沙漠之舟，更何况我还在敦煌鸣沙山乘过。当时有些心惊胆战。既不在围栏中又不负重的骆驼，倒是没有见过实物。距离比较远，也留了几张照片。
这些骆驼真是显得“placid and self-contain’d”。让我想起Walt Whitman的Song of Myself中的诗句
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d,
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
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