Having spent considerable time on the Cape after completing a magazine assignment called "The Wardens of Cape Cod", about the Coast Guard officers of the Outer Cape, Beston drew up floor plans for a house on the dunes two miles south of the Nauset Coast Guard station in Eastham, Massachusetts.
His observation, "We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals,"[REF] is frequently quoted by wildlife and animal enthusiasts everywhere [REF].