"The quality of life, which in the ardour……" — Henry Beston
"The quality of life, which in the ardour of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer."
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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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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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More Ardour Quotes
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one of 22 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of…
— Sun Tzu
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It is odd to watch with what feverish ardour Americans pursue prosperity, ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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There is something in the ardour and ingenousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old…
— Ann Radcliffe
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From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour,
— Julia Margaret Cameron
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From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to me as a…
— Julia Margaret Cameron
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...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of…
— H. Russell Wakefield
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Our great need is not ardour to save man but courage to face God - courage to face God with…
— Peter Forsyth
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But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by…
— Samuel Johnson
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The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the…
— Joseph Conrad
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Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
— John Keats
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The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap…
— Samuel Johnson
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