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 BestonRead
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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote reflects on the relationship between beauty and the perception of clothing over time.
Henry Beston's quote articulates the idea that the passage of time and the constraints of our physical bodies shape how we adorn ourselves with clothing. While some may criticize for being overly visible or noticed, Beston suggests that true beauty is often underappreciated, and deserves to be seen and celebrated more frequently.
Themes
BeautyClothingPerceptionTimeAppreciation
In practice
Example use cases
In a fashion seminar discussing the impact of clothing choices on self-expression, this quote can be used to highlight the significance of appreciating beauty.
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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.
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Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night.
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When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes, as it were, a kind of cosmic outlaw, having neither the completeness nor integrity of the animal nor the birthright of a true humanity.
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