On flocks of birds flying up before him as he walks the beach: "Standing on the beach, I watch the lovely sight of the group instantly turned into a constellation of birds, into a fugitive Pleiades whose living stars keep their chance positions."


The Outermost House - Chapter II (p. 23), Rinehart & Company. 1928

Henry Beston Quotes

On flocks of birds flying up before him as he walks the beach: Standing on the beach, I watch the lovely sight of the group instantly turned into a...

On flocks of birds flying up before him as he walks the beach: Standing on the beach, I watch the lovely sight of the group instantly turned into a...

On flocks of birds flying up before him as he walks the beach: Standing on the beach, I watch the lovely sight of the group instantly turned into a...

On flocks of birds flying up before him as he walks the beach: Standing on the beach, I watch the lovely sight of the group instantly turned into a...