Top 19 Quotes by Henry Williamson

About Henry Williamson

These are some quotes by English author Henry Williamson Author, who lived between December 1, 1895 and August 13, 1977.

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.

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

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

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

Henry Williamson

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

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

Henry Williamson

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

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

Henry Williamson

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

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

Henry Williamson

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

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.

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.

Henry Williamson

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

Henry Williamson

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.'

Henry Williamson

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