"There are different kinds of terrorist movements, and……" — Robert Macfarlane
"There are different kinds of terrorist movements, and specifically you occasionally face a bully, a Qaddafi. But a bully is different from a zealot. A bully you can deal with, with force, and persuade that bully, through force alone, to stop what he was doing."
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Robert Macfarlane
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15 Quotes by Robert Macfarlane
Robert Macfarlane has 15 quotes on this site.
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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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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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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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