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

“I tre grandi suoni elementari in natura sono il suono della pioggia, il suono del vento in un bosco primordiale, e il suono del grande oceano su una spiaggia.”

“Avremmo bisogno di un diverso concetto degli animali, più saggio e forse più poetico… Trattiamo con condiscendenza la loro incompletezza e il tragico destino di avere assunto una forma assai inferiore alla nostra, e in questo sbagliamo: non possiamo misurare gli animali con il nostro stesso metro. In un mondo più arcaico e completo del nostro gli animali si muovevano compiuti e perfetti, dotati di percezioni sensoriali che noi non abbiamo mai raggiunto o abbiamo perduto, vivendo di gridi che non udremo mai. Gli animali non sono nostri fratelli né subalterni; sono popoli altri, coinvolti come noi nella trama della vita e del tempo, compagni di prigionia dello splendido e faticoso travaglio della terra.”

Origine: Da The Outermost House; citato in Marcus Parisini, L'anima degli animali, Edizioni Biblioteca dell'Immagine, Pordenone, 2002, pp. 50-51. ISBN 88-87881-68-5

“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.”

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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.”

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

“Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors of their veins, she gives of her strength, sustaining them with her own measureless tremor of dark life. Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places. For the gifts of life are the earth’s and they are given to all, and they are the songs of birds at daybreak, Orion and the Bear, and dawn seen over ocean from the beach.”

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

“An old farm is always more than the people under its roof. It is the past as well as the present, and vanished generations have built themselves into it as well as left their footsteps in the worn woodwork of the stair.”

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Henry Beston libro Northern Farm

Origine: Northern Farm

“Nature is part our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man. When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes, as it were, a kind of cosmic outlaw, having neither the completeness and integrity of the animal nor the birthright of a true humanity.”

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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.”

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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 <br class="br">The Outermost House, 1928

“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.”

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Henry Beston libro The Outermost House

Origine: The Outermost House, 1928, p. 25: Ch 2

“The world to-day is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot. In my world of beach and dunes these elemental presences lived and had their being, and under their arch there moved an incomparable pageant of nature and the year.”

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

“Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.”

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Henry Beston libro The Outermost House

Origine: The Outermost House

“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?”

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Henry Beston libro Northern Farm

Origine: Northern Farm

“Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night. Primitive folk, gathered at a cave mouth round a fire, do not fear night; they fear, rather, the energies and creatures to whom night gives power; we of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights and ever more 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? Having made themselves at home in a civilization obsessed with power, which explains its whole world in terms of energy, do they fear at night for their dull acquiescence and the pattern of their beliefs? Be the answer what it will, to-day's civilization is full of people who have not the slightest notion of the character or the poetry of night, who have never even seen night. Yet to live thus, to know only artificial night, is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day.”

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

“We lose a great deal, I think, when we lose this sense and feeling for the sun. When all has been said, the adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on natures's sustaining and poetic spirit.”

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

“Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, Nature struggles to pour life.”

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“My house completed, and tried and not found wanting by a first Cape Cod year, I went there to spend a fortnight in September. The fortnight ending, I lingered on, and as the year lengthened into autumn, the beauty and mystery of this earth and outer sea so possessed and held me that I could not go. The world to-day is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot. In my world of beach and dunes these elemental presences lived and had their being, and under their arch there moved an incomparable pageant of nature and the year.”

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

“And what of Nature itself, you say – that callous and cruel engine, red in tooth and fang? Well, it is not so much of an engine as you think. As for "red in tooth and fang," whenever I hear the phrase or its intellectual echoes I know that some passer-by has been getting life from books.”

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

“Wolves are not our brothers; they are not our subordinates, either. They are another nation, caught up just like us in the complex web of time and life.”

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“I muse again on the dogmatic assertion which I often make that the countryman's relation to Nature must never be anything else but an alliance… When we begin to consider Nature as something to be robbed greedily like an unguarded treasure, or used as an enemy, we put ourselves in thought outside of Nature, of which we are inescapably a part.”

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Henry Beston libro Northern Farm

Origine: Northern Farm

“I am glad that the country world…retains a power to use our English tongue. It is a part of its sense of reality, of its vocabulary of definite terms, and of its habit of earthly common sense. I find this country writing an excellent corrective of the urban vocabulary of abstractions and of the emotion disguised as thinking which abstractions and humbug have loosed upon the world. May there always be such things as a door, a milk pail, and a loaf of bread, and words to do them honor.”

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“Summer is the season of motion, winter is the season of form. In summer everything moves save the fixed and inert. Down the hill flows the west wind, making wavelets in the shorter grass and great billows in the standing hay; the tree in full leaf sways its heavy boughs below and tosses its leaves above; the weed by the gate bends and turns when the wind blows down the road. It is the shadow of moving things that we usually see, and the shadows are themselves in motion. The shadow of a branch, speckled through with light, wavers across the lawn, the sprawling shadow of the weed moves and sways across the dust.”

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Origine: The Northern Farm: A Glorious Year on a Small Maine Farm

“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals… They are not our brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life…”

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

“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 splendour and travail of the earth.”

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

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

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“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.”

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Henry Beston libro Northern Farm

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

“The house was full of the sound of the gale. It was a winter northeaster, furious with wind and snow, and driving down against us from the dark and desolate North Atlantic and a thousand miles of whitecaps and slavering foam.”

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Henry Beston libro Northern Farm

Origine: Northern Farm, 1948, p. 16

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