Henry Williamson

The tides which flow and lapse in the Bristol Channel are often distained by the freshets of many streams falling through wooded…

— Henry Williamson

The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life,…

— Henry Williamson

“Whatv is thisnlife, if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?”

— Henry Williamson

Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.

— Henry Williamson

I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain…

— Henry Williamson

“Whatv is this life, if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?”

— Henry Williamson

If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life…

— Henry Williamson

The eldest and biggest of the litter was a dog cub, and when he drew his first breath he was less than…

— Henry Williamson

True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.

— Henry Williamson

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

— Henry Williamson

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.

— Henry Williamson

Every country in every war fights for freedom.

— Henry Williamson

Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.

— Henry Williamson

When the soil's fertility is being conserved instead of raped, when village life is a social unity, when pride of craftsmanship returns,…

— Henry Williamson

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks…

— Henry Williamson

Peace in Europe can only come through union in one economic system. The United States of Europe are overdue.

— Henry Williamson

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

— Henry Williamson

The bells cease, and the power goes from me, and I descend again to the world of the living; and if in…

— Henry Williamson

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.

— Henry Williamson

All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.

— Henry Williamson

In future, lots of things will be made from beans and fibres grown on the farmers' fields. This new science is called…

— Henry Williamson

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.

— Henry Williamson

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.

— Henry Williamson

All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it.

— Henry Williamson