Henry Beston Quotes

A collection of quotes by Henry Beston.

Henry Beston (1888-1968) was an American author and naturalist best known for his book "The Outermost House" (1928). Born in Massachusetts, he graduated from Harvard University and served as an ambulance driver in World War I. Beston's experience living in a small cabin on Cape Cod's outer beach inspired his renowned work, which eloquently captures his deep connection with nature and the changing seasons. Throughout his career, he advocated for conservation and the protection of wildlife. Beston's writing continues to inspire readers with its evocative prose and profound reflections on the natural world.

The quality of life, which in the ardor of spring was person

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

Life

The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older an

The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.

Animals

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical conc

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creatures through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.

Animals

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of

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.

Nature