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
answer checks competing economy ethic expect great house human marvel nature sit values
As well 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.
dishonour earth spirit
Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.
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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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The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods.