“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
“We are adept, if occasionally embarrassed, at saying what we make of places - but we are far less good at saying… — Robert Macfarlane Places Make Copy Share Image
Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing. — Robert Macfarlane Endless 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 Commands 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 Animal 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
“We don't come fresh to even the most inaccessible of landscapes. ... We carry expectations and to an extent make what we… — Robert MacFarlane Conform Expectations 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
“Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
“meaning indifferent to the distinction between things. It is not, on the whole, that natural phenomena and entities themselves are disappearing; rather… — Robert Macfarlane Language 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
“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
“To be in the Burren is to be reminded that physical matter is simultaneously indestructible and entirely transmutable: that it can swap… — Robert Macfarlane Immortality Copy Share Image
All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small… — Robert Macfarlane Blazing Copy Share Image
“In Northamptonshire dialect 'to thaw' is 'to ungive.' The beauty of this variant I find hard to articulate, but it surely has… — Robert Macfarlane Beauty Copy Share Image
“Yet there is also something curiously exhilarating about the contemplation of deep time. True, you learn yourself to be a blip in… — Robert Macfarlane Exist Copy Share Image
“The deepwood is vanished in these islands -- much, indeed, had vanished before history began -- but we are still haunted by… — Robert Macfarlane Fairy tale Copy Share Image
“There is no mystery in this association of woods and otherworlds, for as anyone who has walked the woods knows, they are… — Robert Macfarlane Different times Copy Share Image
“Single trees are extraordinary; trees in number more extraordinary still. To walk in a wood is to find fault with Socrates's declaration… — Robert Macfarlane Different ways Copy Share Image
“There was nothing unique about my beech tree, nothing difficult in its ascent, no biological revelation at its summit, nor any honey,… — Robert Macfarlane Trees Copy Share Image
