Henry Williamson Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

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

“If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.”

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

“Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.”

“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.”

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

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

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