“We so often think of the past as a something like a nature reserve: a discrete, bounded place we can visit in our imaginations to make us feel better. I wonder how we could learn to recognise that the past is always working on us and through us, and that diversity in all its forms, human and natural, is strength.” PastNatureDiversityNostalgiaSustainability Author:Helen Macdonald
“I'd thought that to heal my great hurt, I should flee to the wild. It was what people did. The nature books I'd read told me so. So many of them had been quests inspired by grief or sadness. Some had fixed themselves to the stars of elusive animals. Some sought snow geese. Others snow leopards. Others cleaved to the earth, walked trails, mountains, coasts and glens. Some sought wildness at a distance, others close to home... Now I knew this for what it was: a beguiling but dangerous lie. I was furious with myself and my own unconscious certainty that this was the cure I needed. Hands are for other human hands to hold. They should not be reserved exclusively as perches for hawks. And the wild is not a panacea for the human soul; too much in the air can corrode it to nothing.” DeathNatureLossGriefHealingSorrowCopingWildWildness Book:H is for Hawk Source: H is for Hawk
“So many of our stories about nature are about testing ourselves against it, setting ourselves against it, defining our humanity against it.” HumanityNatureHumankindNature QuotesMan Vs Nature Book:Vesper Flights Source: Vesper Flights