“Lift is created by the onwards rush of life over the curved wing of the soul.” — Robert Macfarlane Life Copy Share Image
We are fallen mostly into pieces but the wild returns us to ourselves — Robert Macfarlane Fallen 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
The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a… — Robert Macfarlane Books 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 Knowledge 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
“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
“Felt pressure, sensed texture and perceived space can work upon the body and so too upon the mind, altering the textures and… — Robert Macfarlane Psychology 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 Drift Copy Share Image
“We lack - we need - a term for those places where one experiences a 'transition' from a known landscape... into 'another… — Robert Macfarlane Another world 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
“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
Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion. — Robert Macfarlane Half 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
“Look — here they come, their eyes are hagstones & their words are shingle. They rise on the shore, rock-cored, flint beings,… — Robert Macfarlane Ness Copy Share Image
“Landscape... can 'enlarge the imagined range for self to move in.” — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
“Not all books received as gifts are transformative, of course. Sometimes the only thing a book gives its reader is a paper… — Robert Macfarlane Book 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
“Without a name made in our mouths, an animal or a place struggles to find purchase in our minds or our hearts.” — Robert Macfarlane Animals 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
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
“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
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
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
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
