"The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent……" — Henry Williamson
"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; work with the body, fatigue - and peace of mind."
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16 Quotes by Henry Williamson
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Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.
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Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing…
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Peace in Europe can only come through union in one economic system. The United States of Europe are overdue.
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I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and…
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All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it.
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Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.
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