The Outermost House - II

Let me quote from the forward by Henry Beston in January 1949 in the copy of the book that I have:

"Now that there is a perspective of time, however, something else is emerging from the pages which equally arrests my attention.  It is the meditative perception of the relation of 'Nature' (and I include the whole cosmic picture in this term) to the human spirit.  Once again, I set down the core of what I continue to believe.  Nature is a part of 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."