"We are fallen mostly into pieces but the……" — Robert Macfarlane
"We are fallen mostly into pieces but the wild returns us to ourselves"
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15 Quotes by Robert Macfarlane
Robert Macfarlane has 15 quotes on this site.
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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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President Reagan was concerned - deeply concerned, emotionally concerned - with the loss of life of any American, but especially…
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More Fallen Quotes
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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.
— David Bailey
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Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just…
— Christian Bale
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form…
— Jean Baudrillard
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With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone…
— Saul Bellow
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When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills…
— Hal Borland
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But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart…
— Edie Brickell
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The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.
— George W. Bush
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Remember, you must not sleep at the Seder. If you do, Elijah the Prophet will come with a bag on…
— Sholom Aleichem
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It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much…
— Donald Cargill
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