Henry Williamson Quotes

Henry William Williamson was an English army officer, naturalist, farmer, and writer known for his novels on natural and social history, and his advocacy of ruralism. He won the Hawthornden Prize for literature in 1928 with his book Tarka the Otter.

✵ 1. December 1895 – 13. August 1977

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Henry Williamson Quotes

“With the dried blood stiff on my temples I climbed the hill, cursing the satanic way of men, yet knowing myself vile, for they had not known what they were doing, but I betrayed an innocent; and the tears— weak, whiskey tears— would not wash from my brow the blood of a little brother.”

Henry Williamson

The Village Book (1930) – after a killing of a badger by villagers.

Men , Way , Tear

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