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4/18/14

HENRY BESTON Quotes


"It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live."  ~Henry Beston

“The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the sense we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.”  ~Henry Beston

“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods.” ~Henry Beston

“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach” ~Henry Beston

"Touch the earth,  love the earth, honour the earth,  her plains,  her valleys,  her hills,  and her seas,: rest your spirit in her solitary places." ~Henry Beston