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Top 15 Henry Williamson Quotes (2025 Update)

Henry Williamson Quote: “Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.”

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

— Henry Williamson

Henry Williamson Quote: “Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.”

2. “Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.”

— Henry Williamson

Henry Williamson Quote: “Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.”

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

— Henry Williamson

Henry Williamson Quote: “The old self must die. He had always known it, but had so seldom acted it. He felt strangely glad that he was at the front. It was the only life; the only death.”

4. “The old self must die. He had always known it, but had so seldom acted it. He felt strangely glad that he was at the front. It was the only life; the only death.”

— Henry Williamson

Henry Williamson Quote: “Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.”

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

— Henry Williamson

Henry Williamson Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Henry Williamson Quote: “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 friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.”

7. “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 friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.”

— Henry Williamson

Henry Williamson Quote: “When the bees’ feet shake the bells of the heather, and the ruddy strings of the sap-stealing dodder are twined about the green spikes of the furze, it is summertime on the commons. Exmoor is the high country of the winds, which are to the falcons and the hawks: clothed by whortleberry bushes and lichens and ferns and mossed trees in the goyals, which are to the foxes, the badgers, and the red deer: served by rain-clouds and drained by rock-littered streams, which are to the otters.”

8. “When the bees’ feet shake the bells of the heather, and the ruddy strings of the sap-stealing dodder are twined about the green spikes of the furze, it is summertime on the commons. Exmoor is the high country of the winds, which are to the falcons and the hawks: clothed by whortleberry bushes and lichens and ferns and mossed trees in the goyals, which are to the foxes, the badgers, and the red deer: served by rain-clouds and drained by rock-littered streams, which are to the otters.”

— Henry Williamson

Henry Williamson Quote: “For within himself, be he clairvoyant and articulate, he will find latent the divisions of the mind of European man, and their opposing impulses.”

9. “For within himself, be he clairvoyant and articulate, he will find latent the divisions of the mind of European man, and their opposing impulses.”

— Henry Williamson

Henry Williamson Quote: “The fundamental love that a man needs in his life, if he is to have steady spiritual ease is the love of place where he was a child, and first became aware of the light, and the objects which the light illumined... It is the hurt child become man that seeks the wilderness, wherein to rebuild himself.”

10. “The fundamental love that a man needs in his life, if he is to have steady spiritual ease is the love of place where he was a child, and first became aware of the light, and the objects which the light illumined... It is the hurt child become man that seeks the wilderness, wherein to rebuild himself.”

— Henry Williamson

Henry Williamson 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.”

11. “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

Henry Williamson Quote: “Would the day come when scientists accepted that the ancients, who gave personalities to all natural phenomena, had divined the actual truth?”

12. “Would the day come when scientists accepted that the ancients, who gave personalities to all natural phenomena, had divined the actual truth?”

— Henry Williamson

Henry Williamson Quote: “The whole of the Universe is run by God, which is one vast Imagination, struggling against the almost irresistible brute forces of the cosmos.”

13. “The whole of the Universe is run by God, which is one vast Imagination, struggling against the almost irresistible brute forces of the cosmos.”

— Henry Williamson

Henry Williamson Quote: “All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.”

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

— Henry Williamson

Henry Williamson Quote: “Life is big business, fornication, and death. Civilisation is... the sterilising of truth... Civilisation is world-citizenship and freedom from tradition, based on rootless eternal wandering in the mind that had nothing to lose and everything to gain including the whole world.”

15. “Life is big business, fornication, and death. Civilisation is... the sterilising of truth... Civilisation is world-citizenship and freedom from tradition, based on rootless eternal wandering in the mind that had nothing to lose and everything to gain including the whole world.”

— Henry Williamson

Henry Williamson Quote: “There is a paradise, and all true artists work to the glory of its existence, even if they do not always believe with conventional or organised faith.”

16. “There is a paradise, and all true artists work to the glory of its existence, even if they do not always believe with conventional or organised faith.”

— Henry Williamson

Henry Williamson Quote: “In his mind he was a spirit, feeling the radiant heat of the chalk of the trenches; cooling himself in the flicker-rippling Ancre. O, to be able to see it all again, a ghost world of gun-flashes at night. O to see it all, to grasp all of it, without violence, without pain; to share the marching and the singing of the living that were part of the great dream of life and death.”

17. “In his mind he was a spirit, feeling the radiant heat of the chalk of the trenches; cooling himself in the flicker-rippling Ancre. O, to be able to see it all again, a ghost world of gun-flashes at night. O to see it all, to grasp all of it, without violence, without pain; to share the marching and the singing of the living that were part of the great dream of life and death.”

— Henry Williamson

Henry Williamson Quote: “Pity acts through the imagination, the higher light of the world, and imagination arises from the world of things, as a rainbow from the sun.”

18. “Pity acts through the imagination, the higher light of the world, and imagination arises from the world of things, as a rainbow from the sun.”

— Henry Williamson

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