“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
“Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent… — Robert Macfarlane High ground 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 Meditation Copy Share Image
“I felt my way up the cliffs to the south until I found a patch of machair a few yards long and… — Robert Macfarlane 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
“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
“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
“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
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
