Air Quote by Henry Beston

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man…

— Henry Beston

“It may seem odd to contemporary readers to think of the natural year as a metaphor by which we live. As individuals, we have…

— Henry Beston

The creatures with whom we share the planet and whom, in our arrogance, we wrongly patronize for being lesser forms, they are not brethren,…

— Henry Beston

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…

— Henry Beston

Expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its…

— Henry Beston

“And what of Nature itself, you say – that callous and cruel engine, red in tooth and fang? Well, it is not so much…

— Henry Beston

The adventure of the sun is the greatest natural drama by which we live.

— Henry Beston

The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the…

— Henry Beston

Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.

— Henry Beston

If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering the earth" under the…

— Henry Beston

We of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights and ever…

— Henry Beston

For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of…

— Henry Beston