Henry Williamson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The bells cease, and the power goes from me, and I descend again to the world of the living; and if in some foolish confiding moment I try to explain why I want to re-live those old days, to tear the Truth out of the past so that all men shall see plainly, perhaps someone will say to me, 'Oh, the War! A tragedy - best forgotten.'”

“Every country in every war fights for freedom.”

“In future, lots of things will be made from beans and fibres grown on the farmers' fields. This new science is called chemurgy. Plastics, for industry, will come from the soil.”

“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.”

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

“All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it.”

“Peace in Europe can only come through union in one economic system. The United States of Europe are overdue.”

“True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.”

“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.”