Henry Williamson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Spring #Water #Icicles
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
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
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.
-- Henry Williamson

#Frustration #Mind #Body
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
Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.
-- Henry Williamson

#Heart #Individual #Change Of Heart
Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.
-- Henry Williamson

#Otters #Long #Water
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
All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.
-- Henry Williamson

#Cities #World
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
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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