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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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It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness…
— Ellen Glasgow
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To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it…
— Anne Bronte
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Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul;…
— Thomas Adams
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Are gun rights advocates arguing that roving gangs...shooting innocent bystanders constitutes a 'well-regulated militia'?
— Bill Hicks
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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…
— Robert Macfarlane
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I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing…
— Elinor Lipman
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No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found…
— Lord Byron
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Now that I'd experienced being a woman to a man I was in love with, I'd become self-conscious about being a woman…
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
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