Robert Macfarlane Quotes

• We are fallen mostly into pieces but the wild returns us to ourselves

  Robert Macfarlane

  Spiritual, Pieces, Return

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• Los que viajan a las cimas de las montañas están medio enamorados de sí mismos y medio enamorados del olvido.

  Robert Macfarlane

  Mountain, Half, Oblivion

  Robert Macfarlane (2004). “Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit”, Vintage Books

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• 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

  Escritura, Relatos, Literatura

  Robert Macfarlane (2012). “The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot”, p.26, Penguin

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• 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 kind of language-magic, the power that certain words possess to enchant our imaginative relations with Nature and landscape.

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  Fall, Magic, Landscape

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• Cualquiera que viva en una ciudad conocerá la sensación de llevar demasiado tiempo en ella. La visión de desfiladero que nos imprimen las calles, la sensación de bloqueo, el anhelo de superficies que no sean de cristal, ladrillo, hormigón y asfalto.... Llevo una década viviendo en Cambridge de forma intermitente, e imagino que seguiré haciéndolo durante años. Y mientras siga aquí, sé que también tendré que ir a los lugares salvajes.

  Robert Macfarlane

  Years, Cities, Wild Places

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• 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 forget that we are track-markers, through, because most of our journeys now occur on asphalt and concrete--and these are substances not easily impressed.

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  Animal, Journey, Snow

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• Todos los viajeros a lugares salvajes habrán sentido alguna versión de esto, una breve percepción ardiente del desinterés del mundo. A pequeña escala, resulta estimulante. Pero en su forma completa aniquila.

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  Wild Places, Perception, World

  Robert MacFarlane (2009). “Wild Places”, p.103, Granta Books

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• 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

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  Feet, World, Lines

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• Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing.

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  Knowing, Shepherds, Endless

  Robert Macfarlane (2012). “The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot”, p.175, Penguin

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• I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree.

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  Thinking, Eight, Tree

  Robert Macfarlane (2012). “The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot”, p.210, Penguin

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• 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 refute our excessive trust in the man-made. They pose profound questions about our durability and the importance of our schemes. They induce, I suppose, a modesty in us.

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  Men, Profound, Mountain

  Robert MacFarlane (2009). “Mountains Of The Mind”, p.275, Granta

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• 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.

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  Country, Memories, Unique

  Robert Macfarlane (2008). “The Wild Places”, p.69, Penguin

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• 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 the earth and the dolphin continues to swim even as it leaps again and again from the sea, so writing and wayfaring are continuous activities, a running stitch, a persistence of the same seam or stream.

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  Running, Fall, Writing

  Robert Macfarlane (2012). “The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot”, p.95, Penguin

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