Woods and forests have been essentialt to the imagination of these islands, and of countries throughout the world, for centuries. It is for this reason that when woods are felled, when they are suppressed by tarmac and concrete and asphalt, it is not only unique species and habitats that disappear, but also unique memories, unique forms of thought.
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…
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.
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…
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
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 …
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