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Robert Macfarlane has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We are fallen mostly into pieces but the wild returns us to ourselves
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Woods and forests have been essentialt to the imagination of these islands, and of countries throughout the world, for centuries. It is…
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As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer…
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Anyone who lives in a city will know the feeling of having been there too long. The gorge-vision that the streets imprint…
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All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small…
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Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.
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Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass,…
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Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and…
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By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can…
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I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree.
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A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something perhaps even…
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Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing.
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We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the…
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I don't believe there's anything cosmic or divine or morally superior about whales and dolphins or sharks or trees, but I do…
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The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.
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You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?
— Miley Cyrus
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I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins.
— Kathleen Quinlan
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Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget…
— Unknown Author
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People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. They always have the power to think, and to think about their…
— Albert Ellis
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Americans are ugly unwashed clods that live off of government cheese. If I could, I'd take every living American, grind them up…
— Thom Yorke
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I have been honored to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence,…
— Paul Watson
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If you saw two guys named Hambone and Flipper, which one would you think liked dolphins the most? I'd say Flipper, wouldn't…
— Jack Handey
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