The world today 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.

Henry Beston

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Topic

Man and nature Alienation The elements Nature

Author

Henry Beston

Source

The Outermost House

Genre

Nature writing Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Naturalist Writer

From

United States

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Original Citation

Beston, Henry. The Outermost House. Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1928, ch. 1.

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Beston, Henry. The Outermost House. Holt Paperbacks, 2003, ch. 1.

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