“Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, Nature struggles to pour life.” — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
The quality of life, which in the ardour of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
Wolves are not our brothers; they are not our subordinates, either. They are another nation, caught up just like us in the… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“The world to-day is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
Expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“And what of Nature itself, you say – that callous and cruel engine, red in tooth and fang? Well, it is not… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete,… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
The creatures with whom we share the planet and whom, in our arrogance, we wrongly patronize for being lesser forms, they are… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man… — Henry Beston Copy Share
“It may seem odd to contemporary readers to think of the natural year as a metaphor by which we live. As individuals, we have… — Henry Beston Copy Share
The creatures with whom we share the planet and whom, in our arrogance, we wrongly patronize for being lesser forms, they are not brethren,… — Henry Beston Copy Share
I am glad that the country world...retains a power to use our English tongue. It is a part of its sense of reality, of… — Henry Beston Copy Share
Expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its… — Henry Beston Copy Share
“And what of Nature itself, you say – that callous and cruel engine, red in tooth and fang? Well, it is not so much… — Henry Beston Copy Share
The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the… — Henry Beston Copy Share
If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering the earth" under the… — Henry Beston Copy Share
We of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights and ever… — Henry Beston Copy Share
For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of… — Henry Beston Copy Share
Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and… — Henry Beston Copy Share
As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. — Henry Beston Copy Share
Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors of their… — Henry Beston Copy Share
