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" All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me. "
Henry Williamson
Greatest
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" 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. "
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" All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it. "
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" Peace in Europe can only come through union in one economic system. The United States of Europe are overdue. "
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" Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people. "
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Start
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" Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct. "
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" 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. "
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" Every country in every war fights for freedom. "
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" 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. "
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" The bells cease, and the power goes from me, and I descend again to the world of the living; and if in some foolish confiding moment I try to explain why I want to re-live those old days, to tear the Truth out of the past so that all men shall see plainly, perhaps someone will say to me, 'Oh, the War! A tragedy - best forgotten.' "
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" Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free. "
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Set
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" 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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Everything
Senses
Expression
" Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual. "
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Only
Through
" 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. "
Henry Williamson
Eyes
Father
Old Friends
" In future, lots of things will be made from beans and fibres grown on the farmers' fields. This new science is called chemurgy. Plastics, for industry, will come from the soil. "
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Science
New
Future
" True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake. "
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Rare
Workers
True
" The tides which flow and lapse in the Bristol Channel are often distained by the freshets of many streams falling through wooded coombes below the moor. "
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Falling
Tides
Streams