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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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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society…
— Karl Marx
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Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it…
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One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.
— Earl Derr Biggers
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God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love;…
— J I Packer
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An angel, legend has it, took pity on a little shepherd girl who had nothing to give to the Infant Jesus in…
— Allen Lacy
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We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
— Winston Churchill
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