Thread of Henry Williamson quotes - likely to be updated

“Such was life; everything passed away; the fields and woodlands of boyhood became built upon; streets and pavements and lamp posts arose where warblers and willow wrens had sung; nothing ever remained the same.”
― The Golden Virgin

“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 ” A Clear Water Stream

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

“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.”

“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.” Love and the Loveless

“...feelings for the countryside…the beauty and the wildness, the enchantment of so much colour and life and warmth of the sun. Most people are restless in the country, they feel a vacancy, and want to get back to the shops and pavements and traffic; what they call life.”

“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.” The Phoenix Generation