The adventure of the sun is the greatest natural drama by which we live. — Henry Beston Adventure Copy Share Image
Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy. — Henry Beston Comprehension Copy Share Image
“Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, Nature struggles to pour life.” — Henry Beston Life Copy Share Image
We need another and a wiser and a perhaps more mystical concept of animals. — Henry Beston Animal Copy Share Image
To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day. — Henry Beston Absurd Copy Share Image
“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.” — Henry Beston Winter 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 Awareness 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 Answers 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… — Henry Beston Age 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… — Henry Beston Animal 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 Earth 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 Answers Copy Share Image
Poor body, time and the long years were the first tailors to teach you the merciless use of clothes. Though some scold… — Henry Beston Beautiful 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 Brother Copy Share Image
For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars -… — Henry Beston Astronomy 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 Books Copy Share Image
We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we… — Henry Beston Animal Copy Share Image
Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the… — Henry Beston Austerity 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 Beach 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… — Henry Beston Abstraction 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 Life 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 Animal 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 Autumn 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… — Henry Beston Animal Copy Share Image
Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man. — Henry Beston Dishonour Copy Share Image
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it. — Henry Beston Banishment Copy Share Image
Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man. — Henry Beston Dishonor Copy Share Image
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods. — Henry Beston Autumn Copy Share Image
The seas are the hearts blood of the earth. Plucked up and kneaded by the sun and the moon, the tides are… — Henry Beston Blood 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 Essentials Copy Share Image
The quality of life, which in the ardour of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer. — Henry Beston Ardor Copy Share Image
Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night. — Henry Beston Aspect 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 Earth 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 Animal 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 Earth 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 Desert 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 Animal Copy Share Image
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience… — Henry Beston Adventure 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 Adventure Copy Share Image
