"The tides which flow and lapse in the……" — Henry Williamson
"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 moor."
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16 Quotes by Henry Williamson
Henry Williamson has 16 quotes on this site.
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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…
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All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.
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Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the…
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Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.
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Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.
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If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to…
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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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The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The…
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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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