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Man Quotes by Henry Beston
- 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.
- Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.
- 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…
- 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…
- Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.
- 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…
- 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…
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