Robert Macfarlane Quotes

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• We are fallen mostly into pieces but the wild returns us to ourselves
• Woods and forests have been essentialt to the imagination of these islands, and of countries throughout the world, for centuries. It is for this reason…
• As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer continues to run…
• Anyone who lives in a city will know the feeling of having been there too long. The gorge-vision that the streets imprint on us, the…
• All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilarates.…
• Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.
• Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass, dew, earth or…
• Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and the soles of…
• By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains…
• I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree.
• A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something perhaps even more valuable: a…
• Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing.

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