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Robert Macfarlane Quotes

Total quotes: 6
“'crown shyness' - phenomenon whereby individual tree crowns avoid overlap or touch, forming striking canopy patterns.”
— Robert Macfarlane
Tagged: Trees, Nature, Wonder of Nature, Beauty of Nature, canopy
“'ghost gear' - lost & abandoned fishing equipment in seas and oceans, totalling 10% of all plastic waste in the ocean & very harmful to marine life.”
— Robert Macfarlane
Tagged: ghost gear, Word, definition, Term, Marine Life, Nature, environment, Pollution, water pollution
“Libraries are time-machines. Libraries are wildwoods. Libraries are galaxies. Libraries are magic portals into learning & dreaming. Libraries are vital for social mobility.”
— Robert Macfarlane
Tagged: library, Libraries, libraries are important, Knowledge, Books, Wisdom
“It can be hard, during the solitary years of writing a book, to imagine it might ever find its way into in the lives & hearts of others.”
— Robert Macfarlane
Tagged: Writing, Writing A Book, writing process, Writer's Truth, solitude in writing, Writing As A Career
“'apricity' - the warmth of the sun on a winter’s day.”
— Robert Macfarlane
Tagged: Word, definition, Term, apricity, Warmth, warmth in the cold, Hope
“'Yggdrasil' - in Norse cosmology, the great ash tree at the cosmos's centre, the branches & roots of which connect different realms & times, allowing passage from underworld to heaven.
One of many such 'world-trees' that stand rooted in global cultures.”
— Robert Macfarlane
Tagged: Word, definition, Term, yggdrasil, Cosmology, Cosmos
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