Henry Beston Quotes

My house completed, and tried and not found wanting by a first Cape Cod year, I went there to spend ...

Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more c...

I began to reflect on Nature's eagerness to sow life everywhere, to fill the planet with it, to crow...

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal na...

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wo...

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals... They are not our breth...

And what of Nature itself, you say--that callous and cruel engine, red in tooth and fang? Well, it i...

...Nature has its unexpected and unappreciated mercies.

A year indoors is a journey along a paper calendar; a year in outer nature is the accomplishment of ...

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night fr...

The world to-day is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, ...

And what of Nature itself, you say – that callous and cruel engine, red in tooth and fang? Well, it ...

We lose a great deal, I think, when we lose this sense and feeling for the sun. When all has been sa...

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as...

To be able to see and study undisturbed the processes of nature--I like better the old Biblical phra...

Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors o...

...some have asked me what understanding of Nature one shapes from so strange a year? I would answer...

I muse again on the dogmatic assertion which I often make that the countryman's relation to Nature m...

The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into it...

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night fr...

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wo...