"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
"Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don't know."
"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."
"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..."
"You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren."
"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."