Best Henry Beston Quotes
- Expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its checks… All
- The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth,… Air
- Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man. Awareness
- Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the… Afraid
- We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly… Animal
- The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the sense… Animal
- The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods. Autumn
- Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy. Comprehension
- Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man. Dishonour
- We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in… Animal
- The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions… Animal