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Robert Macfarlane Quote: “Reading kept him alive,’ she said, ’right till the end.”

51. “Reading kept him alive,’ she said, ’right till the end.”

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Robert Macfarlane Quote: “Time feels differently reckoned after the mine: further deepened, further folded. My sense of nature feels differently reckoned too: further disturbed, further entangled.”

52. “Time feels differently reckoned after the mine: further deepened, further folded. My sense of nature feels differently reckoned too: further disturbed, further entangled.”

— Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane Quote: “What we bloodlessy call ‘place’ is to young children a wild compound of dream, spell and substance: place is somewhere they are always ‘in’, never ‘on’.”

53. “What we bloodlessy call ‘place’ is to young children a wild compound of dream, spell and substance: place is somewhere they are always ‘in’, never ‘on’.”

— Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane Quote: “Looking from afar – from present to past, from exile to homeland, from island back to mainland, mountain-top at lowland – results notin vision’s diffusion but in its sharpening; not in memory’s dispersal but in it’s plenishment.”

54. “Looking from afar – from present to past, from exile to homeland, from island back to mainland, mountain-top at lowland – results notin vision’s diffusion but in its sharpening; not in memory’s dispersal but in it’s plenishment.”

— Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane Quote: “To perceive matter that casts no shadow, you must search not for its presence but for its consequence.”

55. “To perceive matter that casts no shadow, you must search not for its presence but for its consequence.”

— Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane Quote: “Sometimes in the darkness you can see more clearly.”

56. “Sometimes in the darkness you can see more clearly.”

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Robert Macfarlane Quote: “I have learnt that magnitude of scale is no metric by which to judge natural spectacle, and that wonder is now, more than ever, an essential survival skill.”

57. “I have learnt that magnitude of scale is no metric by which to judge natural spectacle, and that wonder is now, more than ever, an essential survival skill.”

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Robert Macfarlane Quote: “In the right frame of mind, to walk from one room in a house to another can be exploration of the highest order. To a child a back garden can be an unknown country.”

58. “In the right frame of mind, to walk from one room in a house to another can be exploration of the highest order. To a child a back garden can be an unknown country.”

— Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane Quote: “There is a humility to the act of the kora, which stands as a corrective to the self-exaltation of the mountaineer’s hunger for an utmost point. Circle and circuit, potentially endless, stand against the symbolic finality of the summit. The pilgrim on the kora contents himself always with looking up and inwards to mystery, where the mountaineer longs to look down and outwards onto knowledge.”

59. “There is a humility to the act of the kora, which stands as a corrective to the self-exaltation of the mountaineer’s hunger for an utmost point. Circle and circuit, potentially endless, stand against the symbolic finality of the summit. The pilgrim on the kora contents himself always with looking up and inwards to mystery, where the mountaineer longs to look down and outwards onto knowledge.”

— Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane Quote: “The footstepping biographer never actually reached his subject; only encountered at best second-order suggestions of their earlier presence: glimpses of afterglow, retinal ghosts, psychic gossamer.”

60. “The footstepping biographer never actually reached his subject; only encountered at best second-order suggestions of their earlier presence: glimpses of afterglow, retinal ghosts, psychic gossamer.”

— Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane Quote: “But I had learned to see another type of wildness, to which I had once been blind: the wildness of natural life, the sheer force of ongoing organic existence, vigorous and chaotic. This wildness was not about asperity, but about luxuriance, vitality, fun. The weed thrusting through a crack in a pavement, the tree root impudently cracking a carapace of tarmac: these were wild signs, as much as the storm wave and the snowflake.”

61. “But I had learned to see another type of wildness, to which I had once been blind: the wildness of natural life, the sheer force of ongoing organic existence, vigorous and chaotic. This wildness was not about asperity, but about luxuriance, vitality, fun. The weed thrusting through a crack in a pavement, the tree root impudently cracking a carapace of tarmac: these were wild signs, as much as the storm wave and the snowflake.”

— Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane Quote: “In Waitomo, New Zealand, a subterranean river is lent light by the constellation of glow-worms, Arachnocampa luminosa, that live on the cave roof and speckle its stone with galaxies of blue stars amid the stalactites.”

62. “In Waitomo, New Zealand, a subterranean river is lent light by the constellation of glow-worms, Arachnocampa luminosa, that live on the cave roof and speckle its stone with galaxies of blue stars amid the stalactites.”

— Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane Quote: “Viewed from the perspective of a desert or an ocean, human morality looks absurd – crushed to irrelevance. Assertions of value seem futile. A flat ontology entices: all life is equally insignificant in the face of eventual ruin.”

63. “Viewed from the perspective of a desert or an ocean, human morality looks absurd – crushed to irrelevance. Assertions of value seem futile. A flat ontology entices: all life is equally insignificant in the face of eventual ruin.”

— Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane Quote: “Not all books received as gifts are transformative, of course. Sometimes the only thing a book gives its reader is a paper cut.”

64. “Not all books received as gifts are transformative, of course. Sometimes the only thing a book gives its reader is a paper cut.”

— Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane Quote: “Nature, too, seems increasingly better understood in fungal terms: not as a single gleaming snow-peak or tumbling river in which we might find redemption, nor as a diorama that we deplore or adore from a distance – but rather as an assemblage of entanglements of which we are messily part.”

65. “Nature, too, seems increasingly better understood in fungal terms: not as a single gleaming snow-peak or tumbling river in which we might find redemption, nor as a diorama that we deplore or adore from a distance – but rather as an assemblage of entanglements of which we are messily part.”

— Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane Quote: “For him, as for so many other people, the mind was a landscape of a kind and walking a means of crossing it.”

66. “For him, as for so many other people, the mind was a landscape of a kind and walking a means of crossing it.”

— Robert Macfarlane

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