If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins. Henry Williamson Read Quote
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don’t fit in with normal, healthy people. Henry Williamson Read Quote
All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it. Henry Williamson Read Quote
The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and irritability; work with the body, fatigue – and peace of mind. Henry Williamson Read Quote
The bells cease, and the power goes from me, and I descend again to the world of the living; and if in some foolish confiding moment I try to explain why I want to re-live those old days, to tear the Truth out of the past so that all men shall see plainly, perhaps someone will say to me, ‘Oh, the War! A tragedy – best forgotten.’ Henry Williamson Read Quote
I must return to my old comrades of the Great War – to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders – to the rolling, heat-miraged downlands of the Somme – for I am dead with them, and they live in me again. Henry Williamson Read Quote
Peace in Europe can only come through union in one economic system. The United States of Europe are overdue. Henry Williamson Read Quote
In future, lots of things will be made from beans and fibres grown on the farmers’ fields. This new science is called chemurgy. Plastics, for industry, will come from the soil. Henry Williamson Read Quote
