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
stars night our-world
For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across the eternal seas of space and time
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.
night evil absurd
To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day.
dishonour earth spirit
Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.
becomes personal quality social spring
The quality of life, which in the ardor of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer
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.
summer country fall
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods.
joy impossible reverence
Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.
garden thinking water
If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering the earth" under the plants, keeping up its moisture content and gauging its need, the garden will get on very well.
moving garden years
A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year, and pressing on and pausing the whole to its own inherent rhythms.