Henry Williamson Quotes

English - Author | December 1, 1895 - August 13, 1977

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 old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.

Henry Williamson

FatherEyesChildhoodOld Friends

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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LifeWorkPeaceMindFrustration

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.

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EducationImaginationChildMindSet

Every country in every war fights for freedom.

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FreedomWarCountryEveryFights

I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders - to the rolling, heat-miraged downlands of the Somme - for I am dead with them, and they live in me again.

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LiveGreatI AmWarMeDead

Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.

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ChangeHeartThroughIndividualCome

Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.

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LiveMusicWaterSpringAgain

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 from his nose to where his tail joined his back-bone.

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DogLongFirstBreathLitterNose

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

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WaterHabitEnoughLongBecomeBeen

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.

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BloodEverythingExpressionSenses

All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.

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ExperienceCityMeWorldGreatest

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.

Henry Williamson

FlowFallingThroughTidesStreams

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