Henry Williamson Quotes

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

  Henry Williamson

  Spring, Water, Spring Water

  Henry Williamson (2011). “The Gale of the World”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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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 craftsmanship returns, when everyone works for the sake of adding beauty and importance to life, when every river is clean and bright, and the proud words 'I serve' are in everyone's heart and purpose. Then my country will be good enough for me.

  Henry Williamson

  Country, Heart, Pride

  Henry Williamson (1966). “A solitary war”

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• Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.

  Henry Williamson

  People, Imagination, Healthy

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

  Henry Williamson

  Heart, Individual, Change Of Heart

  Henry Williamson (1966). “A solitary war”

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• 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

  Friends, Father, Flower

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

  Henry Williamson

  Children, Creating, Imagination

  Henry Williamson (1963). “The Power of the Dead”

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

  Henry Williamson

  Otters, Long, Water

  Henry Williamson (1960). “The Henry Williamson animal saga”, Macdonald and Jane's

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• 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.

  Henry Williamson

  Mother, Ocean, Nurse

  Henry Williamson (2011). “The Gale of the World”, p.252, Faber & Faber

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

  Henry Williamson

  Cities, Cities In The World, Experience

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• 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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  Frustration, Mind, Becoming

  Henry Williamson (1963). “The Power of the Dead”

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

  Henry Williamson

  Expression, Blood, Utterance

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