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“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 for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we 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 the extension 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.”
― Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

“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.”
― Henry Beston, 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.”
― Henry Beston, 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, 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.”
― Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

“Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.”
― Henry Beston, 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.”
― Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese

“There is one right thing for the student to do, that is, to develop the habit of weighing worths, of sensing the relative values of the facts that he meets.”
― Frank Morton McMurry, How to Study and Teaching How to Study

“Many parents as well as teachers refuse to place this responsibility upon children for fear of the mistakes that they will make. On account of this fear they make it as nearly as possible unnecessary for children to judge freely, by giving them arbitrary rules to follow, or by directing them exactly what they shall do each moment. This cultivates poor judgment by depriving children of the very practice that will make their judgments reliable; it prevents the school requirements from corresponding to those in life outside.”
― Frank Morton McMurry, How to Study and Teaching How to Study

“Every person is bound to make many mistakes; but he will make far fewer when his ability to judge has been properly trained.”
― Frank Morton McMurry, How to Study and Teaching How to Study

“Living, in the case of animals, thus means getting on, and any ability, whether physical or intellectual, is of importance to the extent that it makes such getting on successful.”
― Frank Morton McMurry, How to Study and Teaching How to Study

“Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.”
― Frank Morton McMurry, How to Study and Teaching How to Study

“Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.”
― Frank Morton McMurry, How to Study and Teaching How to Study

“Never give more time to reading a book than to reflecting upon its contents.”
― Frank Morton McMurry, How to Study and Teaching How to Study

“Não me importo com as rimas.  Raras vezes Há duas árvores iguais, uma ao lado da outra.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poemas completos de Alberto Caeiro

“O único sentido íntimo das cousas
É elas não terem sentido íntimo nenhum.  ”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poemas completos de Alberto Caeiro

“Amar é a eterna inocência,
E a única inocência não pensar...”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poemas completos de Alberto Caeiro

“Pensar uma flor é vê-la e cheirá-la
E comer um fruto é saber-lhe o sentido.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poemas completos de Alberto Caeiro

“Se eu pudesse trincar a terra toda 
E sentir-lhe uma paladar,
Seria mais feliz um momento ... 
Mas eu nem sempre quero ser feliz. 
É preciso ser de vez em quando infeliz 
Para se poder ser natural...”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poemas completos de Alberto Caeiro

“Nem tudo é dias de sol,
E a chuva, quando falta muito, pede-se.
Por isso tomo a infelicidade com a felicidade Naturalmente, como quem não estranha
Que haja montanhas e planícies
E que haja rochedos e erva...”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poemas completos de Alberto Caeiro

“O que é preciso é ser-se natural e calmo
Na felicidade ou na infelicidade,
Sentir como quem olha,
Pensar como quem anda,
E quando se vai morrer, lembrar-se de que o dia morre,
E que o poente é belo e é bela a noite que fica...”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poemas completos de Alberto Caeiro

“As bolas de sabão que esta criança
Se entretém a largar de uma palhinha
São translucidamente uma filosofia toda.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poemas completos de Alberto Caeiro

“Uma flor acaso tem beleza?
Tem beleza acaso um fruto?
Não: têm cor e forma
E existência apenas.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poemas completos de Alberto Caeiro

“A beleza é o nome de qualquer cousa que não existe
Que eu dou às cousas em troca do agrado que me dão.
Não significa nada.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poemas completos de Alberto Caeiro

“Os poetas místicos são filósofos doentes, 
E os filósofos são homens doidos.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poemas completos de Alberto Caeiro

“Por mim, escrevo a prosa dos meus versos 
E fico contente,
Porque sei que compreendo a Natureza por fora;
E não a compreendo por dentro
Porque a Natureza não tem dentro;
Senão não era a Natureza.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poemas completos de Alberto Caeiro

“Sou místico, mas só com o corpo.
A minha alma é simples e não pensa.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poemas completos de Alberto Caeiro

“O meu misticismo é não querer saber.
É viver e não pensar nisso.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poemas completos de Alberto Caeiro

“Todo o mal do mundo vem de nos importarmos uns com os outros,   
Quer para fazer bem, quer para fazer mal.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poemas completos de Alberto Caeiro