They Just Keep Coming

“Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and the soles of our feet, shaped by the surfaces they press upon, are landscapes themselves with their own worn channels and roving lines. They perhaps most closely resemble the patterns of ridge and swirl revealed when a tide has ebbed over flat sand”
— Robert Macfarlane

On the Rhode

“Buried seeds thrown to the surface by explosion and trench digging have resulted in surreal sprays of early spring flowers, growing among bones and mess tins.”
— Robert Macfarlane

Watch Tower

“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.”
— Robert Macfarlane

On Green

“She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind.”
― Richard Ford

The Ghost of A Pilgrim

“There is no mystery in this association of woods and otherworlds, for as anyone who has walked the woods knows, they are places of correspondence, of call and answer. Visual affinities of color, relief and texture abound. A fallen branch echoes the deltoid form of a streambed into which it has come to rest. Chrome yellow autumn elm leaves find their color rhyme in the eye-ring of the blackbird. Different aspects of the forest link unexpectedly with each other, and so it is that within the stories, different times and worlds can be joined.”
— Robert Macfarlane

Lessons From Uncle Jordan

“At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it’s usually long after the real decision was actually made–like light we see emitted from stars.”
― Richard Ford

Coffee in the Afternoon

“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

Meeting the Goats

“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves–slowly, evenly, without rushing to the future.”  –Thich Nhat Hanh

 

Two Hungry Littles

“Life is ours to be spent, not to
be saved.”
― D.H. Lawren

Palm Reading

“All people dream, but not equally.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the
morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous
people, For they dream their dreams with open eyes, And make them come
true.”
― D.H. Lawrence