Quotes by Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

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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, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
The world to-day is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling fr — Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with — Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
My house completed, and tried and not found wanting by a first Cape Cod year, I went there to spend a fortnight in Septe — Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of — Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
We lose a great deal, I think, when we lose this sense and feeling for the sun. When all has been said, the adventure of — Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
And what of Nature itself, you say – that callous and cruel engine, red in tooth and fang? Well, it is not so much of an — Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
A year indoors is a journey along a paper calendar; a year in outer nature is the accomplishment of a tremendous ritual. — Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
I began to reflect on Nature's eagerness to sow life everywhere, to fill the planet with it, to crowd with it the earth, — Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
And what of Nature itself, you say--that callous and cruel engine, red in tooth and fang? Well, it is not so much of an — Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
...Nature has its unexpected and unappreciated mercies. — Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
To be able to see and study undisturbed the processes of nature--I like better the old Biblical phrase "mighty works"--i — Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
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 g — Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
...some have asked me what understanding of Nature one shapes from so strange a year? I would answer that one's first ap — Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by c — Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals... They are not our brethren; they are not un — Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of — Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod