To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day. — Henry Beston Absurd 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
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it. — Henry Beston Banishment 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 Beach 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 Nature 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 Nature 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
Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into… — Henry Beston Corners 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
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
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 Life 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
The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling… — Henry Beston Air 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 quality of life, which in the ardour of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer. — Henry Beston Ardor Copy Share Image
Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man. — Henry Beston Dishonor Copy Share Image
“...some have asked me what understanding of Nature one shapes from so strange a year? I would answer that one's first appreciation… — Henry Beston Creation 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 Animals 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
If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine… — Henry Beston Able 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
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
The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and… — Henry Beston Adventure Copy Share Image
