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.
From Henry Williamson
Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.
All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it.
Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.
Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.
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.
The eldest and biggest of the litter was a dog cub, and when he drew his first breath he was less than five inches long from his nose to where his tail joined his back-bone.
Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.
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.
Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.
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