Henry Beston

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born

June 01, 1888 in Boston, Massachusetts, The United States

died

April 15, 1968

gender

male

website

http://www.henrybeston.com

genre

Outdoors & Nature, Nonfiction

influences

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, W.H. Hudson, H.M. Tomlinson,...more

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Henry Beston was an American writer and naturalist, best known as the author of The Outermost House, written in 1925.

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Average rating: 3.97 · 531 ratings · 105 reviews · 14 distinct works

	The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod by Henry Beston, Robert Finch (Introduction) 3.96 avg rating — 468 ratings — published 1963 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Northern Farm by Henry Beston, Thoreau MacDonald (Illustrator) 3.77 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1972 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Herbs and the Earth 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1973 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Firelight Fairy Book (Illustrated Edition) by Henry Beston, Maurice E. Day (Illustrator) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1919 — 24 editions	My rating:
	The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence by Henry Beston, Elizabeth Coatsworth (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	The St Lawrence (Rivers of America series, #20) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1942 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Especially Maine; The Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence. by Henry Beston, Elizabeth Coatsworth 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1970 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Chimney Farm Bedtime Stories 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1966 — 2 editions	My rating:
	White Pine and Blue Water 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1950 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Volunteer Poilu 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	My rating:

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“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 dear earth itself underfoot. In my world of beach and june these elemental presences lived and had their being...”
― Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

tags: life , nature

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“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions 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 splendour and travail of the earth.”
― Henry Beston

tags: animals

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“We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they are more finished and complete, gifted with extensions 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.”
― Henry Beston

tags: animals , philosophy

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