Henry Beston

I happened across a new author that I just love.  A man after my own heart.  His love of the country and the simple life hit a deep place in my own heart.  These are two of his most famous books, The Outermost House and Northern Farm.

These are two quotes by Henry Beston, just beautiful!

"Nature", there is my country.  The work.......to celebrate, to reveal the mystery, the beauty, and the rites of nature of the visible world.  To bind this feeling to my name.

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals.  Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them 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 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 nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.