Frasi di Henry Beston

Henry Beston è stato un naturalista e scrittore statunitense, principalmente noto per il suo libro The Outermost House .

✵ 1. Giugno 1888 – 15. Aprile 1968
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Henry Beston frasi celebri

“Il mondo di oggi è malato fino al midollo delle ossa della mancanza di cose elementari: di un fuoco a portata di mano, di acqua che sgorga dalla terra, di aria e della stessa cara terra sotto i piedi.”

Origine: Citato in Renaldo Fischer, Storia di un cane e del padrone a cui insegnò la libertà, traduzione di Laura Pignatti, Corbaccio, Milano, 1997, p. 57. ISBN 88-7972-205-0

Henry Beston: Frasi in inglese

“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 other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.”

Origine: The Outermost House, 1928, p. 25: Ch 2
Origine: The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
Contesto: 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 moved 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, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.

“Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.”

Origine: The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

“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. I have heard them all, and of the three elemental voices, that of ocean is the most awesome, beautiful and varied.”

Henry Beston libro The Outermost House

p. 57: Ch. 3 http://books.google.com/books?lr=&id=edhCAAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+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%22&pg=PA57#v=onepage
The Outermost House, 1928

“Every year at the farm I watch the insect kingdom come into its northern being, flourish in what we have of heat and sun, live out its myriad life, and disappear almost as if it had never been.”

Henry Beston libro Northern Farm

p. 200 https://books.google.com/books?id=xvoMAAAAYAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=sun
Northern Farm, 1948

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