Animal Quotes by Henry Beston

8 Animal quotes by Henry Beston

Henry Beston, known for his deep connection to nature, shares a handful of observations that illuminate the behavior and spirit of animals. Though short, these eight snippets echo his love for the wild and the insights it offers.

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We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated…

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The creatures with whom we share the planet and whom, in our arrogance, we wrongly patronize for being lesser forms, they are…

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The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions…

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We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we…

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We need another and a wiser and a perhaps more mystical concept of animals.

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When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very…

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Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

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The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete,…

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Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.

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We of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights and ever…

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