Quote by Robert Macfarlane Download Open image ““When the lark sing he feels invulnerable.”” — Robert Macfarlane ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“...For can you think how it would be, to never, never hear a meadow lark sing again...?” — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
“There were no larks anymore. There was only the setting sun spreading blood up the sky and the yowl of hounds on a breast-high… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A lark, caught in a hunter’s net Sang sweeter then than ever, As if the falling melody Might wing and net dissever At dusk… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“Lark of memory it is your blood that is flowing and not mine Lark of memory I have tightened my fist Lark of memory… — Jacques Prévert Copy Share Image
“He saw the delicate blades of grass which the bodies of his comrades had fertilized; he saw the little shoots on the shell-shocked trees.… — Humphrey Cobb Copy Share Image
“There’s a beauty in birds on the wing, That stirs the heart and makes earthbound creatures Long for flight, but the larks above the… — Charles Todd Copy Share Image
“and suddenly she began to sing. Keen, heart-piercing was her song as the song of the lark that rises from the gates of night… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Lark: "You shouldn't yell at her." Frostpine: "Of course I should. Gods bless us all, Lark, but our Water dedicates would try the patience… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
I walk where once the grass was green And mourn the lark that sings no more What bird could sing whose eyes have seen… — Tom Springfield Copy Share Image
None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings. — John Lyly Copy Share Image
“From somewhere in the blue vault of heaven overhead came the joyous trilling of a lark, from below the silken rustling of the tideless… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
“The association of the wild and the wood also run deep in etymology. The two words are thought to have grown out of the… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
“We are adept, if occasionally embarrassed, at saying what we make of places - but we are far less good at saying what places… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
Anyone who lives in a city will know the feeling of having been there too long. The gorge-vision that the streets imprint on us,… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
“I had started climbing trees about three years earlier, or rather, re-started; for I had been at a school that had a wood for… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
“The whole foot is a document of motion, inscribed by repeated action. Babies - from those first foetal footfalls, the kneading of sole against… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
“My grandparents... planted their land up with trees, both those native... and exotics which stood in memory of the countries where they had lived.” — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
“Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and the soles… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing. — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage,… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree. — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
“...the instinct and the body (the felt smoothness of pebbles, the seen grain of light) must know in ways that the conscious mind cannot.” — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
“meaning indifferent to the distinction between things. It is not, on the whole, that natural phenomena and entities themselves are disappearing; rather that there… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
