In recalling those scenes which have given me the greatest happiness, the images of which are most vivid and lasting, I find that most of them are of scenes or objects which were discovered, as it were, by chance, which I had not heard of, or else had heard of and forgotten, or which I had not expected to see. They came as a surprise, and in the following instance one may see that it makes a vast difference whether we do or do not experience such a sensation. In the course of a ramble on foot in a remote district I came to a small ancient town, set in a cuplike depression amidst high...
In recalling those scenes which have given me the greatest happiness, the images of which are most vivid and lasting, I find that most of them are of ...
On the second day of my illness, during an interval of comparative ease, I fell into recollections of my childhood, and at once I had that far, that forgotten past with me again as I had never previously had it. It was not like that mental condition, known to most persons, when some sight or sound or, more frequently, the perfume of some flower, associated with our early life, restores the past suddenly and so vividly that it is almost an illusion. That is an intensely emotional condition and vanishes as quickly as it comes. This was different. To return to the simile and metaphor used at the...
On the second day of my illness, during an interval of comparative ease, I fell into recollections of my childhood, and at once I had that far, that f...
This classic text by W. H. Hudson contains two stories, one of full novel length and the other a short one on happenings in a Hampshire wood, over a thousand years ago.
This classic text by W. H. Hudson contains two stories, one of full novel length and the other a short one on happenings in a Hampshire wood, over a t...
This bird book is more than a mere reprint of Birds in a Village first published in 1893. That was my first book about bird life, with some impressions of rural scenes, in England; and, as is often the case with a first book, its author has continued to cherish a certain affection for it. On this account it pleased me when its turn came to be reissued, since this gave me the opportunity of mending some faults in the portions retained and of throwing out a good deal of matter which appeared to me not worth keeping. W. H. Hudson
This bird book is more than a mere reprint of Birds in a Village first published in 1893. That was my first book about bird life, with some impression...
