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“Nature looks more beautiful in the rain”
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“You've been in the Wild World for long enough to know that everything changes.”
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“When I was a child, I believed that what I want mattered so little that it wasn't even worth me discovering what it might be.”
― All Among the Barley
― All Among the Barley
“Im summer - in spring, even - it is impossible to believe in November. Snow you can picture, picture-postcard style, but the sodden, rotting tangle where the brazen nettles were, the once-secret nest now stark in the bare branches and above all the sheer dead silence of the sky - these things are unimaginable for the rest of the year.”
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“The book had been the key: it showed him a secret world that existed alongside the daily, humdrum one, but that seemed invisible to most people. The birds weren't just things flapping about in the background; they had lives, just like people did: they got married, had families, fought each other and died, and so did the foxes and the squirrels and everything else. And it was happening all the time and all around him, not just in TV programmes, or in Africa or wherever. It was all going on, secretly and without anything to do with people; and TC longed, longed, to belong to it all.”
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“In any case, to experience the countryside on fair days and never foul is to understand only half its story. To watch rain pock the surface of a chalk stream, feel mizzle on the chill skin of your face or smell petrichor rising from summer-dry soil is to be baptised into a fuller, older, and more deeply felt relationship with the natural world.”
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“My mother loved this place, and I think about the day when we brought her up here one last time, right at the very end of her life. It was a strange afternoon; it felt to me as though it should have had more shape, more meaning, but none of us quite knew how to give it the significance we needed. Like so many things in life, you just do your best; but for a long time after we all straggled back to our waiting cars, leaving the gritty ash to blow from the tor's top, I thought, every time it rained, of her body passing slowly into the moor around the tor, and becoming part of it, drawn down by the life-giving water and returned slowly to the earth”
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“Like most children, he was on intimate terms with the earth. The under-tens deal in little sticks and pebbles; they are artisans of holes, experts in the types and properties of stones; they appreciate the many qualities of mud and its summer corollary, dust. And then they grow up, and the ground is just whatever's underfoot.”
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“I feel scared, if I'm honest, and part of me wants to stay here for ever. But most of me knows we have to carry on.”
― By Ash, Oak and Thorn
― By Ash, Oak and Thorn
“Look, we all want to be brave, don't we?' said Moss. 'Well, this is how we do it: we keep on trying, even if we don't know if it's working, or how things will turn out. That's what courage means.”
― By Rowan and Yew
― By Rowan and Yew
“He felt a shiver of excitement at the thought that something lonely and wild lived somehwere near him, something that nobody else knew about. Perhaps he could make friends with it.”
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“And there’s something else that rain gives us; something deeper and more mysterious, to do with memory, and nostalgia, and a pleasurable kind of melancholy.”
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