The Outermost House by Henry Beston

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"As you probably know from reading The Outermost House, Henry Beston believed that the remedy for modern, Western humanity, living in a world increasingly artificial and estranged from nature, lay in a closer communion to the lasting facts of earthly existence: the seasonal progression of the sun, the migrations of animals, the cyclings of the stars, the smells of summer sand-dunes and September hay. At Chimney Farm, he determined to live a simpler life than that of his contemporaries. He chose, as he might have put it, a country life, filled with country truths. Northern Farm, published in 1948, is his testament to that life. "