39 Quotes by Henry Williamson

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it.

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

Every country in every war fights for freedom.