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.'

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.

Every country in every war fights for freedom.

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.

All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.

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.

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

Peace in Europe can only come through union in one economic system. The United States of Europe are overdue.

True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.

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.

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

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