Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson
Sir Henry Hudsonwas an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth12 September 1575
sea green woods
There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh and grey saltings as at Wells in Norfolk.
nature flower ivy
I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too - well-tended lawn.
flower moving bird
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.
animal monkeys existence
The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.
cannot
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
hurt sorry regret
Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.
animal class strange
Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.
men animal bird
A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in their composition. The mind in beast and bird, as in man, is the main thing.
believe years decay
We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.