"A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from……" — Robert Macfarlane
"A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something perhaps even more valuable: a kind of language-magic, the power that certain words possess to enchant our imaginative relations with Nature and landscape."
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Robert Macfarlane
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15 Quotes by Robert Macfarlane
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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,…
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Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive…
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By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than…
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I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree.
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Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing.
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President Reagan was concerned - deeply concerned, emotionally concerned - with the loss of life of any American, but especially…
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