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Life Quotes by Henry Beston
- 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,…
- Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself.
- Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.
- 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…
- 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,…
- The quality of life, which in the ardour of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
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