Ness Quote by Robert Macfarlane

“The moving of the boulders was weary and painful work. We came to know every one of the stones by sight and touch, and…

— Ernest Shackleton

“The eyes, too, were reptilelike in glint and gaze. Yet at that instant, humbled and alert in their look, they were lit by one…

— James Joyce

“A beam from the everlasting sun of God. Rude and unresponsive are the stones; Yet in them divine things lie concealed; I hear their…

— Helen Keller

“Till tree from tree, tree among trees tree over tree become stone to stone, stone between stones, stone under stone for ever. O Loud,…

— James Joyce

“They went together to the pond. The frogs, frozen by the movement, sat still. Fourteen golden eyes like nuggets gleamed unwinking from the margin.…

— Enid Bagnold

“How the moon triumphs through the endless nights! How the stars throb and glitter as they wheel Their thick processions of supernal lights Around…

— James Thomson

“A wave of Time hangs motionless on this particular shore. I notice a tree, arsenical grey in the light, or the slow Wheel of…

— Theodore Roethke

“Only once did I perceive a human being, and that was at the intersection of our crossroad with the wide, white turnpike which cuts…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Beneath our feet a fairy pathway flows, The grass still glitters in the summer breeze, The dusky wood, and distant copse appear, And that…

— Robert Montgomery

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”

— John Muir

“He slept and in his sleep he saw his friends again and they were coming downriver on muddy floodwaters, Hoghead and the City Mouse…

— Cormac McCarthy

You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized…

— Italo Calvino