“One extraordinary feature of the private quintas or orchards and plantations in the vicinity of the Saladeros was the walls or hedges. These were built entirely of cows' skulls, seven, eight, or nine deep, placed evenly like stones, the horns… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
“In going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and this is thrown back upon… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share
I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share
There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh and grey… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share
“Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don't know.” — William Henry Hudson Copy Share
For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the soul with… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share
There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share
The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence. — William Henry Hudson Copy Share
Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them. — William Henry Hudson Copy Share
“Boys are always inarticulate where their deepest feelings are concerned; however much they may desire it they cannot express kind and sympathetic feelings.” — William Henry Hudson Copy Share
Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened. — William Henry Hudson Copy Share
We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share
“The most dreadful scenes, the worst in Dante's Inferno, for example, can be visualized by the inner eye; and sounds, too, are conveyed to… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share
“One extraordinary feature of the private quintas or orchards and plantations in the vicinity of the Saladeros was the walls or hedges. These were… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share
“The British boy suffers the greatest restraint during the period when the call of nature, the instincts of play and adventure, are most urgent.… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share
“It was only one of a dozen or twenty vocations which he had taken up at various times, only to drop them again as… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share
