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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Peace in Europe can only come through union in one economic system. The United States of Europe are overdue.
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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.
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Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.