The world to-day 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. In my world of beach and dunes these elemental presences lived and had their being, and under their arch there moved an incomparable pageant of nature and the year.

~ Henry Beston, “The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod”

Rialto Beach – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission