Quotes from Landmarks

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“Before you become a writer you must first become a reader. Every hour spent reading is an hour spent learning to write;” ― Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks 27 likes Like “Books , like landscapes, leave their marks in us. (…) Certain books, though, like certain landscapes, stay with us even when we left them, changing not just our weathers but our climates.” ― Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks tags: books, landscapes, language, nature-writing24 likes Like “Words act as compass; place-speech serves literally to en-chant the land – to sing it back into being, and to sing one’s being back into it.” ― Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks 11 likes Like “To enter water is, of course, to cross a border. You pass the lake’s edge, the sea’s shore, the river’s brink – and in so doing you arrive at a different realm, in which you are differently minded because differently bodied.” ― Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks 10 likes Like “I relish the etymology of our word thing – that sturdy term of designation, that robust everyday indicator of the empirical – whereby in Old English thynge does not only designate a material object, but can also denote ‘a narrative not fully known’, or indicate ‘the unknowability of larger chains of events’.” ― Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks 5 likes Like “these words: migrant birds, arriving from distant places with story and metaphor caught in their feathers;” ― Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks 5 likes Like “Without a name made in our mouths, an animal or a place struggles to find purchase in our minds or our hearts.” ― Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks 5 likes Like “What we bloodlessy call ‘place’ is to young children a wild compound of dream, spell and substance: place is somewhere they are always ‘in’, never ‘on’.” ― Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks

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“Before you become a writer you must first become a reader. Every hour spent reading is an hour spent learning to write;”

“Books, like landscapes, leave their marks in us. (…) Certain books, though, like certain landscapes, stay with us even when we left them, changing not just our weathers but our climates.”

“Words act as compass; place-speech serves literally to en-chant the land – to sing it back into being, and to sing one’s being back into it.”

“To enter water is, of course, to cross a border. You pass the lake’s edge, the sea’s shore, the river’s brink – and in so doing you arrive at a different realm, in which you are differently minded because differently bodied.”

“I relish the etymology of our word thing – that sturdy term of designation, that robust everyday indicator of the empirical – whereby in Old English thynge does not only designate a material object, but can also denote ‘a narrative not fully known’, or indicate ‘the unknowability of larger chains of events’.”

“these words: migrant birds, arriving from distant places with story and metaphor caught in their feathers;”

“Without a name made in our mouths, an animal or a place struggles to find purchase in our minds or our hearts.”

“What we bloodlessly call ‘place’ is to young children a wild compound of dream, spell and substance: place is somewhere they are always ‘in’, never ‘on’.”