Henry Williamson Quotes

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• When the soil's fertility is being conserved instead of raped, when village life is a social unity, when pride of craftsmanship returns, when everyone works…
• All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.
• Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.
• Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.
• Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.
• 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…
• 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…
• Peace in Europe can only come through union in one economic system. The United States of Europe are overdue.
• I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders -…
• The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and irritability;…
• All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it.
• The tides which flow and lapse in the Bristol Channel are often distained by the freshets of many streams falling through wooded coombes below the…
• Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.
• Every country in every war fights for freedom.
• True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.
• 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…

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