“Landscape... can 'enlarge the imagined range for self to move in.” — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
We are fallen mostly into pieces but the wild returns us to ourselves — Robert Macfarlane Fallen Copy Share Image
“Reading kept him alive,’ she said, ‘right till the end.” — Robert Macfarlane Reading Copy Share Image
“Lift is created by the onwards rush of life over the curved wing of the soul.” — Robert Macfarlane Life Copy Share Image
I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree. — Robert Macfarlane Eight Copy Share Image
“I felt a sensation of candour and amplitude, of the body and mind opened up, of thought diffusing at the body's edges… — Robert Macfarlane Psychology Copy Share Image
“The miniature sandscapes of ridge and valley pressed into the soles of my feet and for days after the walk I would… — Robert Macfarlane Walking Copy Share Image
“And all had, after long acquaintance, at last understood that familiarity with a place will lead not to absolute knowledge but only… — Robert Macfarlane Familiarity Copy Share Image
“My grandparents... planted their land up with trees, both those native... and exotics which stood in memory of the countries where they… — Robert Macfarlane Trees Copy Share Image
“Buried seeds thrown to the surface by explosion and trench digging have resulted in surreal sprays of early spring flowers, growing among… — Robert Macfarlane Early spring Copy Share Image
“In the right frame of mind, to walk from one room in a house to another can be exploration of the highest… — Robert Macfarlane Childhood Copy Share Image
Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion. — Robert Macfarlane Half Copy Share Image
“Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent… — Robert Macfarlane Grandfather Copy Share Image
“Ideas move in space and time. They swim like fish. They drift like pollen. They migrate like birds. Sometimes their movement carries… — Robert Macfarlane Around the world Copy Share Image
“...he suggested that paths were imprinted with the 'dreams' of each traveler who had walked it and that his own experiences would… — Robert Macfarlane Dreams Copy Share Image
By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can… — Robert Macfarlane Confronting Copy Share Image
“Look — here it comes, its bones are plastic, it builds itself from pallet slat & bottle top, rises from sift, is… — Robert Macfarlane Cuttlefish Copy Share Image
“The whole foot is a document of motion, inscribed by repeated action. Babies - from those first foetal footfalls, the kneading of… — Robert Macfarlane Exploring Copy Share Image
A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something perhaps even… — Robert Macfarlane Certain Copy Share Image
Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass,… — Robert Macfarlane Animal Copy Share Image
Woods and forests have been essentialt to the imagination of these islands, and of countries throughout the world, for centuries. It is… — Robert Macfarlane Asphalt Copy Share Image
“Paths are the habits of a landscape. They are acts of consensual making. It's hard to create a footpath on your own...Paths… — Robert MacFarlane Footpath Copy Share Image
As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer… — Robert Macfarlane Deer Copy Share Image
“The association of the wild and the wood also run deep in etymology. The two words are thought to have grown out… — Robert Macfarlane Etymology Copy Share Image
“Wild animals, like wild places, are invaluable to us precisely because they are not us. They are uncompromisingly different. The paths they… — Robert Macfarlane Animals Copy Share Image
Anyone who lives in a city will know the feeling of having been there too long. The gorge-vision that the streets imprint… — Robert Macfarlane Blockage Copy Share Image
Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and… — Robert Macfarlane Action Copy Share Image
“Has the water died?’ asks Will. He is only nine. It is painful for him to see this. He understands that there… — Robert Macfarlane Climate-crisis Copy Share Image
“Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass,… — Robert Macfarlane Journey Copy Share Image
“The best-known connection between footfall, knowledge and memory is the Aboriginal Australian vision of the Songlines. According to this cosmogony, the world… — Robert Macfarlane Dreams Copy Share Image
“I explored the literature of tree-climbing, not extensive, but so exciting. John Muir had swarmed up a hundred-foot Douglas Spruce during a… — Robert Macfarlane Books Copy Share Image
“Our disenchantment of the night through artificial lighting may appear, if it is noticed at all, as a regrettable but eventually trivial… — Robert Macfarlane Checks and balances Copy Share Image
“Although the disappearance of the true wildwood [in the British Isles] occurred in the Neolithic period, before humanity began to record its… — Robert Macfarlane Ancient world Copy Share Image
“I had started climbing trees about three years earlier, or rather, re-started; for I had been at a school that had a… — Robert Macfarlane Climbing trees Copy Share Image
“Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and… — Robert MacFarlane Adventure Copy Share Image
“Before coming to the Black Wood, I had read as widely in tree lore as possible. As well as the many accounts… — Robert Macfarlane Trees Copy Share Image
“It felt at that moment unarguable that a horizon line might exert as potent or pull upon the mind as a mountain's… — Robert Macfarlane Time Copy Share Image
“...the instinct and the body (the felt smoothness of pebbles, the seen grain of light) must know in ways that the conscious… — Robert Macfarlane Conscious Copy Share Image
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