Henry Beston Quotes

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• The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer…
• If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering the earth" under the plants,…
• A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year,…
• Poor body, time and the long years were the first tailors to teach you the merciless use of clothes. Though some scold today because you…
• Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself.
• When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone,…
• Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there…
• Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man.
• Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.
• If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make everything…
• As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.
• It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.
• Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.
• To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day.
• Wolves are not our brothers; they are not our subordinates, either. They are another nation, caught up just like us in the complex web of…
• For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality,…
• Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night.
• 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 its…
• Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it.
• 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,…

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