"It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live."

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Source : Henry Beston, Roger B. Swain (2001). “Herbs and the Earth”, p.4, David R. Godine Publisher

Henry Beston

“The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.”
“Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.”
“I think all these great comforts that come from the human condition of trying to make things easier on ourselves also have these pitfalls, where things become so easy that we forget how enjoyable building a fence can be.”
“Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.”
“She smiled at him, though her hazel-green eyes were wary beneath the brim of a sodden hat. Right at that moment, staring at her across the hall, Gideon Shaw, cynic, hedonist, drunkard, libertine, fell hopelessly in love.”
“One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had become corrupt and bogged down with rules. Rules became more important than feeding the hungry.”
“I came out the womb dancing.”
“Family is the most important thing in the world.”

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