#Robert Macfarlane

[blackswaneuroparedux]

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

- Robert Macfarlane, The Wild Places

#macfarlane #robert macfarlane #quote #outdoors #nature #femme #women #beauty #wild #wanderlust #water #lake #wilderness

[whisperthatruns]

Look---here he comes, his bones are willow & he sings in birds. He rises in marsh, slips forwards by ripple & shiver. Between his tree-ribs birds flutter, then swoop ahead to settle, sing, quiver. His head is a raven’s, his eyes are wrens’ nests. By day from his throat fly finch & fire-crest & in anger he speaks only in swifts.

Look---here she comes, her skin is lichen & her flesh is moss & her bones are fungi, she breathes in spores & she moves by hyphae. She is a rock-breaker, a tree-speaker, a place-shaper, a world-maker.

Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood, from Ness, Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places (W. W. Norton & Company, 2020; orig. pub. 2018)

#robert macfarlane #stanley donwood #ness #ghostways #ghostways: two journeys in unquiet places #poetry

[lascitasdelashoras]

David Quentin - Robert MacFarlane walking the Broomway

#david quentin #robert macfarlane #broomway

[a-ramblinrose]

“This is a book of spells to be spoken aloud. It tells its stories and sings its songs in paint and word. Here you will find incantations and summoning charms, spells that protect and spells that protest, tongue-twisters, blessings, lullabies and psalms. Here you might swoop with a swallow, follow a seal through the sea or sky-race with swifts. Here you can listen with owl-ears and watch with the eyes of an oak. Here a fox might witch into your mind, or flocks of moths may lift from the page to fill the air.” ― Robert Macfarlane, The Lost Spells

#The Lost Spells #Robert Macfarlane #books #book photography #current reading quotes #current reading #not out of void but out of chaos

[lizormianillustration]

I am green to my eyes and green to my heart

nether - johnny flynn & robert macfarlane

#drawing #illustration #art #illustrators on tumblr #artists on tumblr #design #music #graphic design #johnny flynn #robert macfarlane

[riverbird]

"I have for some time now been haunted by the Saami vision of the underland as a perfect inversion of the human realm, with the ground always the mirror-line, such that ‘the feet of the dead, who must walk upside down, touch those of the living, who stand upright’. The intimacy of that posture is moving to me – the dead and the living standing sole to sole."

Robert Macfarlane, Underland: A Deep Time Journey

#robert macfarlane

[trailofleaves]

"The pilgrim contents herself always with looking along and inwards to mystery, where the mountaineer longs to look down and outwards onto total knowledge." — Robert Macfarlane, Introduction to Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain

#Robert Macfarlane #Nan Shepherd #The Pilgrim #mystery #The Living Mountain

[leguin]

the waters are rising the spirits have fled the river rolls seawards still bearing the dead

from johnny flynn and robert macfarlane's new album the moon also rises, released november 10, 2023.

#probably my favorite of the new songs- gorgeous gorgeous harmonies #music #johnny flynn #robert macfarlane #Youtube

[bracketsoffear]

The Terror (Dan Simmons) "Being trapped in the Artic? Not just in the Artic but in the middle of an ice sheet on the ocean? With the only land being a 3 day trek away? So all you can see before you is open plains of snow and ice and knowing underneath you is also the cold, uncaring, freezing ocean? That's not even taking into account the monster hunting you and your men is easily the size of 3-4 polar bears"

Underland (Robert MacFarlane) "A series of essays on "deep time" - that is, viewing the world over timeframes of billions of years, rather than the shorter timeframes we live within & understand. It is essentially the vastness of time. This concept stretches eons into the past and future and is very daunting to read about. The essays all revolve around things underground and often focus on how they're so much larger than us, existing far before us and stretching far beyond.

Also there's a chapter where the author talks about a calving glacier he saw surge upwards hundreds of feet from the sea, unbelievably huge. He recounts how the ice at its base hadn't seen sunlight in eons, and had never even been seen by human eyes, it was so ancient - it then sank underwater again, to once more be hidden. And if that doesn't sound like the origin of a vast avatar idk what does"

#vast poll #the vast #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #The Terror #Dan Simmons #Underland #Robert MacFarlane

[lowcountry-gothic]

To young children, of course, nature is full of doors—is nothing but doors, really….What we bloodlessly call ‘place’ is to young children a wild compound of dream, spell, and substance.

Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks

#quotes #robert macfarlane #children #nature #imagination

[quixoticanarchy]

“One of the agreements tacitly made by consumers with [global extractive] industries is that extraction and its costs will remain mostly out of sight, and therefore undisturbing to its beneficiaries. Those industries understand the market need for alienated labour, hidden infrastructure and the strategic concealment of both the slow violence of environmental degradation and the quick violence of accidents.” 

Underland, Robert Macfarlane

#this book is very good it's about underground geography and also extraction and waste and burial and so much #and karst!! #beautiful writing but now i am crying about glaciers #underland #robert macfarlane #extractivism #geography things #quotes #skravler

[blackswaneuroparedux]

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

- Robert Macfarlane

#macfarlane #robert macfarlane #quote #femme #beauty #outdoors #nature #scottish highlands #highlands #wild

[zoeflake]

There is no mystery in this association of woods and otherworlds, for as anyone who has walked in woods knows, they are places of correspondence, of call and answer. Visual affinities of colour, relief and texture abound...Different aspects of the forest link unexpectedly with each other, and so it is that within the stories of forests, different times and worlds can be joined. —Robert Macfarlane, The Wild Places

#robert macfarlane #quotes #lunaladee photos #foggy forests #original photography

[traveltobeprovedwrong]

The Dark is Rising is being adapted into a podcast/audio drama and I am STOKED!

It’s adapted by Robert McFarlane, creator the magical and haunting Lost Words/Spell Songs (that I am absolutely in love with), and he also worked with Susan Cooper & a few other artists to write songs for it!!! And it will be released on Midwinter’s Eve - how perfect is that? I can’t wait!!!!

“When the dark comes rising, six shall turn it back

Three from the circle, three from the track

Wood, bronze, iron, water, fire, stone

Five shall return, and one go alone”

#the dark is rising #the dark is rising sequence #Susan cooper #robert macfarlane #bbc #bbc world service #will Stanton #the old ones #books #audio dramas #podcast #the lost words #spell songs #midwinter #midwinters eve #over sea under stone

[hamletofficial]

There is dangerous comfort to be drawn from deep time. An ethical lotus-eating beckons. What does our behaviour matter, when Homo sapiens will have disappeared from the Earth in the blink of a geological eye? Viewed from the perspective of a desert or an ocean, human morality looks absurd – crushed to irrelevance. Assertions of value seem futile. A flat ontology entices: all life is equally insignificant in the face of eventual ruin. The extinction of a species or an ecosystem scarcely matters in the context of the planet’s cycles of erosion and repair. We should resist such inertial thinking; indeed, we should urge its opposite – deep time as a radical perspective, provoking us to action not apathy. For to think in deep time can be a means not of escaping our troubled present, but rather of re-imagining it; countermanding its quick greeds and furies with older, slower stories of making and unmaking. At its best, a deep time awareness might help us see ourselves as part of a web of gift, inheritance and legacy stretching over millions of years past and millions to come, bringing us to consider what we are leaving behind for the epochs and beings that will follow us.

- Robert MacFarlane, Underland: A deep time journey.

#robert macfarlane #underland #quote

[whisperthatruns]

She is not green but she makes green. Colour is not a possessed property. You cannot see her if you look straight at her. Like the pigmentless fur of certain moles which turns light gold, though they have no life of light & no need of gold; like the feather-stream on a kingfisher's back which bends light through its barbs & splits it into blue water & blue jewels, she makes green & green fills the air around her & warps hard into objects within her radiance.

Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood, from Ness, Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places (W. W. Norton & Company, 2020; orig. pub. 2018)

#robert macfarlane #stanley donwood #ness #ghostways #ghostways: two journeys in unquiet places #poetry