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Henry Beston

"Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps, afraid of night? Do they fear that vast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars?"

Source : Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.28, David R. Godine Publisher

Henry Beston

#Stars Quotes #Fear Quotes #Night Quotes

“The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute”

Source : Song: Strong Will Continue, Album: Distant Relatives, 2010
“The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.”
“If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.”
“The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.”

Source : Letter to U.S. Attorney General Augustus Hill Garland, May 27, 1885.
“It was a fine fall morning in Paris, crisp and clear, and Benji was quite full of himself, cavorting near the fountain, playing with the children who had inexplicably materialized out of nowhere at the first whiff of a movie star. Their faces radiated and they took turns gently stroking his head. Those Benji chose to favor with a big sloppy lick exploded with laughter, and one young girl ran to her mother, screeching in French that she would never wash her face again.”
“In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type in a query, and Google would show you snippets. They asked university libraries for books, which they would scan for free. At Harvard we didn't permit them to take works under copyright, but other libraries gave them everything.”
“I have a controversial opinion about evil, because I don't believe evil exists. I believe that actions are dark and destructive but I don't believe evil is a thing. I believe it's a by-product of man's fear and desperation.”
“Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.”

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