Henry Beston Quotes

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

I need the seasons to live to the rhythm of rain and sun.

Any living thing that hopes to live on the earth must fit into the ecosphere or perish.

There is much concern these days about the taking of wild animals for sport, but against that must be placed the protection given to wild habitats and many other wild species in the process of keeping game … as with everything in nature, it is all a question of balance and this balance can only be achieved by knowledge and understanding …

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.

It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about and with worms crawling through the damp earth and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms so different from each other and dependent on each other and so complex a manner have all been produced by laws acting around us.

The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.

My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.

Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.

Living in balance and purity is the highest good for you and the earth.

Since we are part of nature...we empathize deeply with its ways... they serve as models of how things should be.

Nature doesn't like empires. It doesn't like accumulation in one place, it doesn't like monoculture. It's always trying to make diverse species. It wants to spread everything out. And we're constantly trying to hold everything in.

Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.

The voice of the natural world would be, "Could you please give us space and leave us alone to get along with our own lives and our own ways, because we actually know much better how to do it then when you start interfering."

Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

Everything that we put into our bodies should also be of nature, a part of that cycle of nature. Once you start messing with that - as I said, everything is connected. Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.

A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being.

There are bugs and there are the pigeons and other predators, but you shouldn't be afraid of them, because this is how nature works.

Everything in nature has found a niche, a perfect harmony of balance. Man need to find his niche, his perfect balance, where he fits in the natural cycle

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations which culture sustains as to wilderness, as that which declares that the world was made especially for the uses of men. Every animal, plant, and crystal controverts it in the plainest terms. Yet it is taught from century to century as something ever new and precious, and in the resulting darkness the enormous conceit is allowed to go unchallenged.

An individual's harmony with his or her 'own deep self' requires not merely a journey to the interior but a harmonizing with the environmental world.