"By speaking of greater forces than we can……" — Robert Macfarlane
"By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains refute our excessive trust in the man-made. They pose profound questions about our durability and the importance of our schemes. They induce, I suppose, a modesty in us."
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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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I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree.
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A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something…
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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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