Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

- Henry Williamson

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

- Henry Williamson

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

- Henry Williamson

The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustrati…

- Henry Williamson

When the soil's fertility is being conserved instead of raped, when village life is a social unity, when pride of craftsmanship returns, when everyon…

- Henry Williamson

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.

- Henry Williamson

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.

- Henry Williamson

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.

- Henry Williamson

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 frien…

- Henry Williamson