William Henry Hudson Quotes

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

William Henry Hudson
Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

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

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 didn't believe.

William Henry Hudson
In this wild solitary girl [Rima] I had at length discovered the mysterious warbler that so often followed me in the wood.

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
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.

William Henry Hudson
I...thanked the Author of my being for the gift of that wild forest, those green mansions where I had found so great a happiness!

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 with a solemn joy. Face to face with Nature on the vast hills at eventide, who does not feel himself near to the Unseen?

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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 Wells in Norfolk.

William Henry Hudson
Here Nature is unapproachable with her green, airy canopy, a sun-impregnated cloud — cloud above cloud — and though the highest may be reached by the eye, the beams yet filter through, illuming the wide spaces beneath — chambers succeeded by chamber, each with its own special lights and shadows.

William Henry Hudson
Pine woods... are monotonous because the trees are nearly all pines and one tree is like another, and their tall, bare trunks wall you in, and their dark stiff foliage is like a roof above you.

William Henry Hudson