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

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

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

“...Nature has its unexpected and unappreciated mercies.”

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

Source: 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.”

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

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

“I began to reflect on Nature's eagerness to sow life everywhere, to fill the planet with it, to crowd with it the earth, the air, and the seas. Into every corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, Nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself. That immense, overwhelming, relentless, burning ardency of Nature for the stir of life! And all these her creatures, even as these thwarted lives, what travail, what hunger and cold, what bruising and slow-killing struggle will they not endure to accomplish earth's purpose? and what conscious resolution of men can equal their impersonal, their congregate will to yield self life to the will of life universal?”

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

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