Top 11 Quotes by 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.

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

Believe, Years, Decay

William Henry Hudson (1923). “The Collected Works of W. H. Hudson: A traveller in little things”

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

Flower, Moving, Bird

William Henry Hudson (2010). “Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest”, p.111, The Floating Press

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

Animal, Equality, Men

William Henry Hudson (1923). “Collected Works”

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

Cities, Joy, Soul

William Henry Hudson (2010). “The Purple Land: Being One Richard Lamb's Adventures in the Banda Oriental, in South America, as Told by Himself”, p.235, The Floating Press

Bear in mind that the children of life are the children of joy; that the lower animals are only unhappy when made so by man; that man alone of all the creatures, has "found out many inventions", the chief of which appears to be the art of making himself miserable, and of seeing all Nature stained with that dark and hateful colour.

William Henry Hudson

Life, Art, Nature

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

Nature, Flower, Ivy

William Henry Hudson (1923). “The Collected Works of W. H. Hudson: The book of a naturalist”

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

William Henry Hudson

Animal, Class, Strange

William Henry Hudson (1923). “Collected Works”

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

William Henry Hudson

Hurt, Regret, Sorry

William Henry Hudson (2015). “Green Mansions”, p.12, Sheba Blake Publishing

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

Sea, Green, Woods

William Henry Hudson (1964). “Birds and Green Places: A Selection from the Writings of W.H. Hudson”