... I muse again on the dogmatic assertion which I often make that the countryman's relation to Nature must never be anything else but an alliance... When we begin to consider Nature as something to be robbed greedily like an unguarded treasure, or used as an enemy, we put ourselves in thought outside of Nature of which we are inescapably a part.

Beston joined the French army in 1915 and served as an ambulance driver. (1909) and M. Beston who dedicated himself as a "writer/naturalist" is considered one of the fathers of the modern environmental movement and The Outermost House has been called one of the motivating factors behind the establishment of the Cape Cod National Seashore.

Henry Beston (June 1 1888 – April 15 1968) was an American writer and naturalist best known as the author of The Outermost House written in 1925.