“Lift is created by the onwards rush of life over the curved wing of the soul.” — Robert Macfarlane Life Copy Share Image
“Reading kept him alive,’ she said, ‘right till the end.” — Robert Macfarlane Reading Copy Share Image
We are fallen mostly into pieces but the wild returns us to ourselves — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
“Landscape... can 'enlarge the imagined range for self to move in.” — Robert Macfarlane 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing. — 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
“...the instinct and the body (the felt smoothness of pebbles, the seen grain of light) must know in ways that the conscious… — Robert Macfarlane 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 Gesture 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
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
“Yet there is also something curiously exhilarating about the contemplation of deep time. True, you learn yourself to be a blip in… — Robert Macfarlane 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 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 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 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 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 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion. — Robert Macfarlane 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 own history, creation myths in almost all cultures look fabulously back to a forested earth. In the ancient Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh, the quest-story which…” quote by Robert Macfarlane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/361/robert-macfarlane-11240_ancient-world_although-the-disappearance-of-the-true-w_1196534.jpg)
