Henry Williamson
Henry Williamson
Henry William Williamsonwas an English soldier, naturalist, farmer and ruralist writer known for his natural history and social history novels. He won the Hawthornden Prize for literature in 1928 with his book Tarka the Otter...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth1 December 1895
cities-in-the-world cities world
All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.
otters water long
Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.
blood expression utterance
Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.
imagination people healthy
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.
children creating imagination
Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.
frustration mind body
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.
spring water icicles
Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.
heart individual change-of-heart
Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.
friends father flower
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.
country heart pride
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.