Quotes by Henry Beston

Henry Beston

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.

Garden

Life

Moving

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

Animal

Vegetarian Diet

Vegetarianism

As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.

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House

Nature

Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man.

Earth

Men

World

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.

Balance

House

Nature

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

Our World

Stars

Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors of their veins, she gives of her strength, sustaining them with her own measureless tremor of dark life. Touch the earth, love the earth, honor the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places. For the gifts of life are the earth’s and they are given to all, and they are the songs of birds at daybreak, Orion and the Bear, and dawn seen over ocean from the beach.

Beach

Ocean

Song

I am glad that the country world…retains a power to use our English tongue. It is a part of its sense of reality, of its vocabulary of definite terms, and of its habit of earthly common sense. I find this country writing an excellent corrective of the urban vocabulary of abstractions and of the emotion disguised as thinking which abstractions and humbug have loosed upon the world. May there always be such things as a door, a milk pail, and a loaf of bread, and words to do them honor.

Country

Reality

Writing

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.

Garden

Rain

Thinking

If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make everything from a spoon to a landing-craft, a natural joy in earthly living is something it never has and never will be able to manufacture.

Joy

Machines

Nature

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Absurd

Adventure

Animal

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Astronomy

Balance

Banishment

Beach

Beautiful

Blood

Brother

Caught

Civilization

Clothes

Country

Doors

Drama

Earth

Evil

Fall

Fashion

Fate

Fear

Fire

Fishing

Forgotten Things

Garden

Heart

House

Humanity

Impossible

Inspirational

Integrity

Joy

June

Life

Life And Time

Light

Love

Machines

Men

Moon

Motivational

Moving

Nature

Needs

Night

Ocean

Our World

Poetry

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Quotes by Henry Beston

Henry Beston

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.

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.

Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man.

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.

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.

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.

If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make everything from a spoon to a landing-craft, a natural joy in earthly living is something it never has and never will be able to manufacture.

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