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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
beauty few fewer truth
All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it.
country freedom war
Every country in every war fights for freedom.
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.
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.
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.
dedicated idealists
True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.
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.
country heart pride
When the soil's fertility is being conserved instead of raped, when village life is a social unity, when pride of craftsmanship returns, when everyone works for the sake of adding beauty and importance to life, when every river is clean and bright, and the proud words 'I serve' are in everyone's heart and purpose. Then my country will be good enough for me.
friends father flower
Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.