A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in their composition. The mind in beast and bird, as in man, is the main thing. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don't know.” — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence. — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them. — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
