Henry Beston Quotes - Page 2

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• The seas are the heart's blood of the earth.

  Henry Beston

  Heart, Blood, Sea

  Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”

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• 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.

  Henry Beston

  Rain, Garden, Thinking

  Henry Beston, Roger B. Swain (2001). “Herbs and the Earth”, p.123, David R. Godine Publisher

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• 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”

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• Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it.

  Henry Beston

  Night, Banishment, Vulgar

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• The quality of life, which in the ardour of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer.

  Henry Beston

  Spring, Quality, Social

  Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”

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• To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day.

  Henry Beston

  Night, Evil, Absurd

  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.28, David R. Godine Publisher

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• We of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights and ever more lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea.

  Henry Beston

  Night, Light, Sea

  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.28, David R. Godine Publisher

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• 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

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

  Henry Beston

  Nature, House, Answers

  Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”

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• 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.

  Henry Beston

  Nature, House, Balance

  Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”

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• Poor body, time and the long years were the first tailors to teach you the merciless use of clothes. Though some scold today because you are too much seen, to my mind, you are not seen fully enough or often enough when you are beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Fashion, Clothes

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