Quotes by : Henry Beston

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

...some have asked me what understanding of Nature one shapes from so strange a year? I would answer....

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

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

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

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

The world to-day is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for....

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

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

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