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…
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…
Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion. - Robert Macfarlane
Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.
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 …
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…
The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells. - Robert Macfarlane
The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.
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…
Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing. - Robert Macfarlane
Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing.
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