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

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

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

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

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