William Henry Hudson

“Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don't know.”

“The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.”

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

“You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.”

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

“In going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and this is thrown back upon our past.”

“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.”

“When the religious Cowper confesses in the opening lines of his address to the famous Yardley oak, that the sense of awe and reverence it inspired in him would have made him bow himself down and worship it but for the happy fact that his mind was illumined with the knowledge of the truth, he is but saying what many feel without in most cases recognizing the emotion for what it is—the sense of the supernatural in nature.”