Henry Beston Quotes

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

The animal shall not be measured by man.

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 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.

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