By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of … - Robert Macfarlane

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The only one who knows this ounce of words is just a token, is he who has a ton to tell that must remain unspoken.

Robert Macfarlane

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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Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.

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Anyone who lives in a city will know the feeling of having been there too long. The gorge-vision that the streets imprint on us, the sense of blockage, the longing for surfaces other than glass, brick, concrete and tarmac. . . . I have lived in Cambridge on and off for a decade, and I imagine I will continue to do so for years to come. And for as long as I stay here, I know I will have to also get to the wild places.

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

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

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All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilarates. But in full form it annihilates.

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