Henry Beston
Henry Beston
Henry Bestonwas an American writer and naturalist, best known as the author of The Outermost House, written in 1928...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 June 1888
CountryUnited States of America
nature men humanity
Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.
nature house balance
Expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its checks and balances, its measurements of competing life - all this is its great marvel and has an ethic of its own.
heart sea blood
The seas are the heart's blood of the earth.
drama adventure doors
The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on nature's sustaining and poetic spirit.
spring quality social
The quality of life, which in the ardour of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer.
heart moon blood
The seas are the hearts blood of the earth. Plucked up and kneaded by the sun and the moon, the tides are systole and diastole of earth's veins.
night sea light
We of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights and ever more lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea.
night banishment vulgar
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it.
stars fear night
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?
religious adventure night
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.
night civilization astronomy
Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night.
earth
It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.
inspirational motivational moving
The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the sense we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.
night evil absurd
To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day.