We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“It may seem odd to contemporary readers to think of the natural year as a metaphor by which we live. As individuals,… — 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 adventure of the sun is the greatest natural drama by which we live. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering the earth"… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. — 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 lose a great deal, I think, when we lose this sense and feeling for the sun. When all has been said,… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, Nature struggles to pour life.” — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“My house completed, and tried and not found wanting by a first Cape Cod year, I went there to spend a fortnight… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night. Primitive… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very… — 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
Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live. — 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
The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling… — 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
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
The adventure of the sun is the greatest natural drama by which we live. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
