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 exhilarates. But in full form it annihilates.
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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