Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1 Quotes
It is the quietening of the day that most appeals.
I’m pretty sure I’m the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill.
We all need to believe in something, a dream that gives us optimism and faith.
If we spend enough time dreaming, then the dream might eventually become real.
Take a step back and view the world through your eyes, not someone else’s. Listen to your heart and decide what you really want.
As an angler and a gardener, I cherish each drop of rain that falls.
One cannot help but identify with the life-giving quality of water, not just to quench our thirst, but for our emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come.
You have to feel the bite of the wind to appreciate the warmth of a winter coat.
Writers who copy or plagiarise others are dreaming in another man’s sleep.
Stop – Unplug – Escape – Enjoy.’ This is the message of the Priory, and the key to enjoying a peaceful and rewarding life.
It is possible to escape the complexities, challenges and pace of modern life. All we have to do is close our eyes and picture a quiet world where time moves slowly.
Cherish the moment and the time in which you live.
I dropped my gardening tools, threw my bicycle over a hedge and went in search of fortunes laid beneath the hangman’s noose.
A traditional Englishman drinks tea to the point where his blood has long-since been replaced with an infusion of Ceylon, Assam, and Darjeeling.
Status: the perpetual carrot that entices us from the front and prods us in the back.
Angling is just a way of relaxing and escaping in the countryside.
It was a country life, a precious existence.
The only person to blame for your situation is you.
As a child I would play with such imagination that the ‘real’ world was never real at all. It was full of mystery, adventure and possibility.
The world grows ever complex. More urban. Less peaceful.
Have courage to go your own way and fulfil the dreams that are unique and important to you.
People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out.
It is possible to be happy and successful by living on one’s own terms.
I like working among ‘creative clutter’. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement.
In the dream world, anything is possible. It requires a fertile imagination, and a desire to explore the half-light between the known and the unknown.
Only the present exists. The past is gone, and the future has not yet happened. There is only ever time present.
Water creates so much beauty, life and mystery.
Water is intrinsically linked to the mystery and excitement of discovering new worlds.
Study the nature around you, but also within you.
Having a fishing rod in your hand is merely an excuse to explore out-of-sight depths and reveal mysteries that previously only existed in dreams.
It’s the wonderment of water that makes it so appealing: thoughts of what’s beneath the surface, or out there beyond a watery horizon.
To sit on the stile would be to continue a familiar existence. To cross the stile would be to begin something new.
Disconnect from society’s pressure to conform. Do things your own way.
Old buildings whisper to us in the creaking of floorboards and rattling of windowpanes.
Everything from the humble woodlouse to specks of dust moving through a ray of sunlight. Each tells a story.
I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment.
When sitting down to write a letter, it always pays to calm one’s mood, collect one’s thoughts, and have a plan.
Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres.
