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
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Date of Birth1 December 1895
dedicated idealists
True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.
betrayed blood brow climbed cursing dried knowing known stiff tears temples wash whiskey
With the dried blood stiff on my temples I climbed the hill, cursing the satanic way of men, yet knowing myself vile, for they had not known what they were doing, but I betrayed an innocent; and the tears - weak, whiskey tears - would not wash from my brow the blood of a little brother.
ages desired english-author found soul
From all the ages my soul desired to take that soul-life which had flowed through them as the sunbeams had continually found an earth.
bristol channel lapse tides
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.
economic europe peace states union united
Peace in Europe can only come through union in one economic system. The United States of Europe are overdue.
again bells best descend explain foolish goes moment past perhaps power shall tear tragedy truth war
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.'
beans future grown lots science
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.
comrades flat great plain return war
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.
country freedom war
Every country in every war fights for freedom.
beauty few fewer truth
All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it.
biggest breath drew eldest english-author five inches joined less tail
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.
bones coal english-author forest lie sand soft thousands
The moose are gone, and their bones lie under the sand in the soft coal which was the forest by the estuary, thousands of years ago.
english-author followed forest mountain swamps
Long ago, when moose roamed in the forest at the mountain of the Two Rivers, otters had followed eels migrating from ponds and swamps to the seas.
mother ocean water
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.