"Do no dishonor to the earth lest you……" — Henry Beston
"Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man."
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36 Quotes by Henry Beston
Henry Beston has 36 quotes on this site.
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The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood,…
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If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering…
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A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to…
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Poor body, time and the long years were the first tailors to teach you the merciless use of clothes. Though…
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Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead,…
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When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part…
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Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from…
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Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life…
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If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although…
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As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.
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It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.
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Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your…
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More Dishonor Quotes
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one of 98 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like -…
— Jim Bakker
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of…
— John Climacus
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Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my…
— William Blake
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
— Ben Jonson
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Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
— Euripides
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Oh that I was lowly in heart! Honor and dishonor, good report and evil report would then be alike, and…
— George Whitefield
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If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as…
— Diane Ackerman
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Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be…
— Abraham Lincoln
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These warriors of the Sacred Band were inscrutable; they loved their war and death and picking through the bones of…
— Janet Morris
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