William Henry Hudson

“In going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and this is thrown…

— William Henry Hudson

I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated…

— William Henry Hudson

There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh…

— William Henry Hudson

“Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don't know.”

— William Henry Hudson

For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the…

— William Henry Hudson

There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women…

— William Henry Hudson

The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.

— William Henry Hudson

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

— William Henry Hudson

“Boys are always inarticulate where their deepest feelings are concerned; however much they may desire it they cannot express kind and sympathetic…

— William Henry Hudson

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

— William Henry Hudson

We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily…

— William Henry Hudson

“The most dreadful scenes, the worst in Dante's Inferno, for example, can be visualized by the inner eye; and sounds, too, are…

— William Henry Hudson

“One extraordinary feature of the private quintas or orchards and plantations in the vicinity of the Saladeros was the walls or hedges.…

— William Henry Hudson

“The British boy suffers the greatest restraint during the period when the call of nature, the instincts of play and adventure, are…

— William Henry Hudson

“It was only one of a dozen or twenty vocations which he had taken up at various times, only to drop them…

— William Henry Hudson

“The blue sky, the brown soil beneath, the grass, the trees, the animals, the wind, and rain, and stars are never strange…

— William Henry Hudson

“When the religious Cowper confesses in the opening lines of his address to the famous Yardley oak, that the sense of awe…

— William Henry Hudson

“the mystical faculty in me which produced those strange rushes or bursts of feeling”

— William Henry Hudson

Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is…

— William Henry Hudson

“My feathered friends were so much to me that I am constantly tempted to make this sketch of my first years a…

— William Henry Hudson

A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of…

— William Henry Hudson

Bear in mind that the children of life are the children of joy; that the lower animals are only unhappy when made…

— William Henry Hudson