Henry Beston

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

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

Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature and with none more completely than with night.

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.

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.

The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.

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.

The leaves fall the wind blows and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.

Touch the earth feel the earth her plains her valleys her hills and her seas rest your spirit in her solitary places.

Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.