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 by the surfaces they press upon, are landscapes themselves with their own worn channels and roving lines. They perhaps most closely resemble the patterns of ridge and swirl revealed when a tide has ebbed over flat sand
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
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.
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…
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…
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…
I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree. - Robert Macfarlane
I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree.
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.
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…
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