William Henry Hudson - Green Mansions (1904)

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

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

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

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