Бестон, Генри цитаты

Генри Бестон, — известный американский писатель-натуралист, автор многочисленных публикаций и книг. Среди них наибольшей известностью пользуется «Домик на краю земли», гуманизм которой рождён слиянием поэтического видения природы, научного подхода в её познании и призыва к бережному сохранению животного мира. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Июнь 1888 – 15. Апрель 1968
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“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.”

Источник: The Outermost House, 1928, p. 25: Ch 2
Источник: The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
Контексте: 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.”

Источник: 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 книга 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 книга Northern Farm

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