Henry Beston Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• 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.

  Henry Beston

  Nature, Joy, Machines

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.83, David R. Godine Publisher

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

  Henry Beston

  Joy, Impossible, Reverence

  Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”

• The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on nature's sustaining and poetic spirit.

  Henry Beston

  Drama, Adventure, Doors

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.25, David R. Godine Publisher

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