“ Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened. William Henry Hudson
“ My feathered friends were so much to me that I am constantly tempted to make this sketch of my first years a book about birds and little else. William Henry Hudson
“ The British boy suffers the greatest restraint during the period when the call of nature, the instincts of play and adventure, are most urgent. Naturally, he looks eagerly forward to the time of escap… William Henry Hudson
“ 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. William Henry Hudson
“ 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 worsh… William Henry Hudson
