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> [Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors of their veins, she gives of her strength, sustaining them with her own measureless tremor of dark life.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-beston/hold-your-hands-out-over-the-earth-as-over-a-flame-to-all-who-love/)

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## More by Henry Beston

> [We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-beston/we-need-another-and-a-wiser-and-perhaps-a-more-mystical-concept-of/)

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> [“It may seem odd to contemporary readers to think of the natural year as a metaphor by which we live. As individuals, we have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-beston/it-may-seem-odd-to-contemporary-readers-to-think-of-the-natural-year/)

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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 not brethren,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-beston/the-creatures-with-whom-we-share-the-planet-and-whom-in-our-arrogance/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-beston/i-am-glad-that-the-country-world-retains-a-power-to-use-our-english/)

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> [Expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-beston/expect-nature-to-answer-to-your-human-values-as-to-come-into-your/)

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> [“And what of Nature itself, you say – that callous and cruel engine, red in tooth and fang? Well, it is not so much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-beston/and-what-of-nature-itself-you-say-that-callous-and-cruel-engine-red/)

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> [The adventure of the sun is the greatest natural drama by which we live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-beston/the-adventure-of-the-sun-is-the-greatest-natural-drama-by-which-we/)

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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 of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-beston/the-animal-should-not-be-measured-by-man-in-a-world-older-than-ours/)

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> [Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-beston/do-no-dishonour-to-the-earth-least-you-dishonour-the-spirit-of-man/)

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> [If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering the earth" under the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-beston/if-gardeners-will-forget-a-little-the-phrase-watering-the-plants-and/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-beston/we-of-the-age-of-the-machines-having-delivered-ourselves-of-nocturnal/)

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> [For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-beston/for-a-moment-of-night-we-have-a-glimpse-of-ourselves-and-of-our-world/)

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> [Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-beston/our-civilization-has-fallen-out-of-touch-with-night-with-lights-we/)

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> [As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-beston/as-well-expect-nature-to-answer-your-human-values-as-to-come-into/)

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> [Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors of their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-beston/hold-your-hands-out-over-the-earth-as-over-a-flame-to-all-who-love/)

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