“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.” WritingRunningEarthFallSeaFeetActivityPagesBoundsPersistenceStreamsPensLeapSwimPaceAgain And AgainDeerWalkersDolphinsStitchesRise And Fall Book:The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot Source: The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
“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.” KindCertainFallLostLanguageMagicRelationValuableLandscapeLiteracyImaginative Author:Robert Macfarlane
