— in loving memory —

JUSTICE WILLIAM NEWSOM

February 15, 1934 – DECEMBER 12, 2018

The Newsom family is deeply saddened to announce the passing of their beloved father, grandfather, brother, and uncle, Justice William Alfred Newsom III. He passed peacefully on December 12th at 9:59 A.M. at his home in San Francisco. Justice Newsom was a proud, lifelong Californian, a public servant of profound accomplishment and a powerful voice for individual rights and environmental protection.

 In lieu of flowers, please donate to the causes that Bill Newsom was most passionate about through The San Francisco Foundation.

NOTE: In the drop down labeled “Which fund will your gift go to?” please select “Justice William Newsom Fund.”

Send checks to:
The San Francisco Foundation
One Embarcadero Center, Suite 1400
San Francisco, CA 94111

And indicate in the memo field:
Justice William Newsom Fund

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.