"Our civilization has fallen out of touch with……" — Henry Beston
"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 sea; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps, afraid of night? Do they fear that vast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars?"
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Henry Beston
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36 Quotes by Henry Beston
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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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Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man.
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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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