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 gives of her strength, sustai…

- 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

A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year, and pressing on and pausing the whole to…

- 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 los…

- Henry Beston

We need another and a wiser and a perhaps more mystical concept of animals.

- Henry Beston

Wolves are not our brothers; they are not our subordinates, either. They are another nation, caught up just like us in the complex web of time and li…

- Henry Beston

The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the…

- Henry Beston

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

- Henry Beston

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

- Henry Beston