Descriptive-prose Quote by 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 back upon…

— 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 plantain with…

— 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 and grey…

— 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 soul with…

— 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 and other…

— 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 feelings.”

— 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 it is…

— 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. These were…

— William Henry Hudson