Quotes by : Henry Beston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

...Nature has its unexpected and unappreciated mercies.

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