All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the … - Robert Macfarlane

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The kind of trust God wants us to have cannot be learned in comfort and ease.

Robert Macfarlane

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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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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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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