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Robert Macfarlane has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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We are fallen mostly into pieces but the wild returns us to ourselves
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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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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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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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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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I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains…
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The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where…
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I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all…
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You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Sejal had not thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a…
— Adam Rex
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My own style depends on my location. Hippie-chic in Costa Rica, tailored and clean in N.Y.C., and great jeans and comfy tops…
— Perrey Reeves
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
— Matthew Arnold
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What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been…
— Benjamin Franklin
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