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Top 15 William Henry Hudson Quotes (2025 Update)

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

1. “The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.”

— William Henry Hudson

William Henry Hudson Quote: “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?”

2. “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?”

— William Henry Hudson

William Henry Hudson Quote: “I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too – well-tended lawn.”

3. “I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too – well-tended lawn.”

— William Henry Hudson

William Henry Hudson Quote: “A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in their composition. The mind in beast and bird, as in man, is the main thing.”

4. “A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in their composition. The mind in beast and bird, as in man, is the main thing.”

— William Henry Hudson

William Henry Hudson Quote: “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.”

5. “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

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

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

— William Henry Hudson

William Henry Hudson Quote: “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...”

7. “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

William Henry Hudson Quote: “Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.”

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

— William Henry Hudson

William Henry Hudson Quote: “Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don’t know.”

9. “Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don’t know.”

— William Henry Hudson

William Henry Hudson Quote: “The most dreadful scenes, the worst in Dante’s Inferno, for example, can be visualized by the inner eye; and sounds, too, are conveyed to us in a description so that they can be heard mentally; but it is not so with smells.”

10. “The most dreadful scenes, the worst in Dante’s Inferno, for example, can be visualized by the inner eye; and sounds, too, are conveyed to us in a description so that they can be heard mentally; but it is not so with smells.”

— William Henry Hudson

William Henry Hudson Quote: “My feathered friends were so much to me that I am constantly tempted to make this sketch of my first years a book about birds and little else.”

11. “My feathered friends were so much to me that I am constantly tempted to make this sketch of my first years a book about birds and little else.”

— William Henry Hudson

William Henry Hudson Quote: “Boys are always inarticulate where their deepest feelings are concerned; however much they may desire it they cannot express kind and sympathetic feelings.”

12. “Boys are always inarticulate where their deepest feelings are concerned; however much they may desire it they cannot express kind and sympathetic feelings.”

— William Henry Hudson

William Henry Hudson Quote: “In the evening of that day, after completing my preparations, I supped on the remaining portions of the sloth, not suitable for preservation, roasting bits of fat on the coals and boiling the head and bones into a broth; and after swallowing the liquid I crunched the bones and sucked the marrow...”

13. “In the evening of that day, after completing my preparations, I supped on the remaining portions of the sloth, not suitable for preservation, roasting bits of fat on the coals and boiling the head and bones into a broth; and after swallowing the liquid I crunched the bones and sucked the marrow...”

— William Henry Hudson

William Henry Hudson Quote: “In going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and this is thrown back upon our past.”

14. “In going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and this is thrown back upon our past.”

— William Henry Hudson

William Henry Hudson Quote: “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.”

15. “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

William Henry Hudson Quote: “When the religious Cowper confesses in the opening lines of his address to the famous Yardley oak, that the sense of awe and reverence it inspired in him would have made him bow himself down and worship it but for the happy fact that his mind was illumined with the knowledge of the truth, he is but saying what many feel without in most cases recognizing the emotion for what it is – the sense of the supernatural in nature.”

16. “When the religious Cowper confesses in the opening lines of his address to the famous Yardley oak, that the sense of awe and reverence it inspired in him would have made him bow himself down and worship it but for the happy fact that his mind was illumined with the knowledge of the truth, he is but saying what many feel without in most cases recognizing the emotion for what it is – the sense of the supernatural in nature.”

— William Henry Hudson

William Henry Hudson Quote: “I could yet always feel that it was infinitely better to be than not to be. THE.”

17. “I could yet always feel that it was infinitely better to be than not to be. THE.”

— William Henry Hudson

William Henry Hudson Quote: “It was only one of a dozen or twenty vocations which he had taken up at various times, only to drop them again as soon as he made the discovery that they one and all entailed months and even years of hard work if he was ever to fulfil his ambitious desire of doing and being something great in the world.”

18. “It was only one of a dozen or twenty vocations which he had taken up at various times, only to drop them again as soon as he made the discovery that they one and all entailed months and even years of hard work if he was ever to fulfil his ambitious desire of doing and being something great in the world.”

— William Henry Hudson

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