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I have seldom been described as shy.
— Nicholas Sparks
It felt at that moment unarguable that a horizon line might exert as potent or pull upon the mind as a mountain's summit.
— Robert Macfarlane
For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith.
— Robert Macfarlane
A token of love comes in a box because love itself cannot be contained.
— Binnie Kirshenbaum
Landscape ... can 'enlarge the imagined range for self to move in.
— Robert Macfarlane
The instinct and the body (the felt smoothness of pebbles, the seen grain of light) must know in ways that the conscious mind cannot.
— Robert Macfarlane
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.
— Haruki Murakami
Felt pressure, sensed texture and perceived space can work upon the body and so too upon the mind, altering the textures and inclinations of thought.
— Robert Macfarlane
Lift is created by the onwards rush of life over the curved wing of the soul.
— Robert Macfarlane
Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.
— Robert Macfarlane
Before you become a writer you must first become a reader. Every hour spent reading is an hour spent learning to write;
— Robert Macfarlane
Kimmeridge (n.): The light breeze which blows through your armpit hair when you are stretched out sunbathing';
— Robert Macfarlane
Moon like a large stainedglass window that breaks on the ocean.
— Federico Garcia Lorca
Those are Klingon and Federation ships," I said. "You're a nerd, Shelton, but, holy crap, do I love this.
— John Corwin
Knowledge cannot be attained except through humility.
— Idries Shah
A walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.
— Robert Macfarlane
Perceive no opposition between precision and mystery, or between naming and not-knowing.
— Robert Macfarlane
Man is the creature with a mystery in his heart that is bigger than himself.
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Without a name made in our mouths, an animal or a place struggles to find purchase in our minds or our hearts.
— Robert Macfarlane
I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree.
— Robert Macfarlane
We are fallen mostly into pieces but the wild returns us to ourselves
— Robert Macfarlane
We are adept, if occasionally embarrassed, at saying what we make of places - but we are far less good at saying what places make of us ...
— Robert Macfarlane
Paths are the habits of a landscape. They are acts of consensual making.
— Robert Macfarlane
I felt a sensation of candour and amplitude, of the body and mind opened up, of thought diffusing at the body's edges rather than ending at the skin.
— Robert Macfarlane
These words: migrant birds, arriving from distant places with story and metaphor caught in their feathers;
— Robert Macfarlane
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
— William Wordsworth
Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing.
— Robert Macfarlane
commitment stays on, both in good and in bad, for better for worste
— Ikechukwu Joseph