To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day. - Henry Beston - Quotesmemo.com

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Henry Beston

To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day.

Absurd, Day, Evil, Night

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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.

Attained, Fate, Finished, Men, Taken, Underlings

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.

Beach, Nature, Rain, Sound, Sounds

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 life.

Brother, Caught, Life And Time, Wolves, Subordinates

The creatures with whom we share the planet and whom, in our arrogance, we wrongly patronize for being lesser forms, 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.

Arrogance, Earth, Lakes, Rivers, Sea, Travail

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.

Earth, Honour, Love, Sea, Valleys

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