Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man. -Henry Beston

 

Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.


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This quote is just one of 9 total Henry Beston quotes in our collection. Henry Beston is known for saying 'Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.' as well as some of the following quotes.

The quality of life, which in the ardor of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer.

Henry Beston

The seas are the heart's blood of the earth.

Henry Beston

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 sense we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.

Henry Beston

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

Henry Beston

As well expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its checks and balances, its measurements of competing life-all this is its great marvel and has an ethic of its own.

Henry Beston