Quotes by : Henry Beston

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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

...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....