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 Wel…

- William Henry Hudson

For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the soul wi…

- William Henry Hudson

The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.

- William Henry Hudson

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 dand…

- William Henry Hudson

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 d…

- William Henry Hudson

There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other incredible things.

- William Henry Hudson

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

- William Henry Hudson

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 compositi…

- William Henry Hudson

Bear in mind that the children of life are the children of joy; that the lower animals are only unhappy when made so by man; that man alone of all th…

- William Henry Hudson