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 HudsonNow that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.
William Henry HudsonThe puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.
William Henry HudsonThere 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 HudsonWe 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 HudsonAnimals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.
William Henry HudsonBear 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