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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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For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that…
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The mere fact that [Tommy Atkins] saw himself as a hero, and not as the rough he was, enlisted, more probably, through…
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We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.
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No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person…
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The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They…
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At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time? Was the press…
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The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go…
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