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, the sense of blockage, the longing for surfaces other than glass, brick, concrete and tarmac....I have lived in Cambridge on and off for a decade, and I imagine I will continue to do so for years to come. And for as long as I stay here, I know I will have to also get to the wild places.
As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer continues to run as it bounds from th… - Robert Macfarlane
As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer continues to run as it bounds from th…
- Robert Macfarlane
Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and the soles of our feet, shaped b… - Robert Macfarlane
Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and the soles of our feet, shaped b…
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 ki… - 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 ki…
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, the sense of blockag… - Robert Macfarlane
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, the sense of blockag…
Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass, dew, earth or moss.... We easily… - Robert Macfarlane
Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass, dew, earth or moss.... We easily…
All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilar… - Robert Macfarlane
All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilar…
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 … - 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 …
Woods and forests have been essentialt to the imagination of these islands, and of countries throughout the world, for centuries. It is for this reas… - Robert Macfarlane
Woods and forests have been essentialt to the imagination of these islands, and of countries throughout the world, for centuries. It is for this reas…
We are fallen mostly into pieces but the wild returns us to ourselves - Robert Macfarlane
We are fallen mostly into pieces but the wild returns us to ourselves
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