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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 19 quotes by Henry Williamson Henry William Williamson (1 December 1895 – 13 August 1977) was an English naturalist, farmer and prolific ruralist author known for his natural history and social history novels. He won the Hawthornden Prize for literature in 1928 with his book Tarka the Otter. Read full biography of Henry Williamson → 1 2 Ctrl → Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old... → 0 The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life... → 0 Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual. 0 If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around... → 0 Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct. 0 Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people. 0 Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free. 0 Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water. 0 I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders - to the rolling... → 0 In future, lots of things will be made from beans and fibres grown on the farmers' fields. This new science is called chemurgy. Plastics, for... → 0 The bells cease, and the power goes from me, and I descend again to the world of the living; and if in some foolish confiding moment I try to explain... → 0 The eldest and biggest of the litter was a dog cub, and when he drew his first breath he was less than five inches long from his nose to where his... → 0 All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me. 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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19 quotes by Henry Williamson