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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, dew, earth or…

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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…
As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer…
Anyone who lives in a city will know the feeling of having been there too long. The gorge-vision that the streets imprint…
All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small…
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,…
Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and…
By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can…
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…
Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing.

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