Quotes by : Henry Beston

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....

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

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

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

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

Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors of....

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.