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“Solitude embraced is the opposite of loneliness”
― Neil Ansell, Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills

tags: loneliness, solitude, solitude-quotes

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#2

“Them as can’t bend, like as not they break.”
― Alan Garner, The Stone Book Quartet

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#3

“You look at the dark and the dark looks at you.”
― John Lewis-Stempel, Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

tags: dark, darkness, night

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#4

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
― William Butler Yeats

tags: education, lifelong-learning

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#5

“Time is only ever overlapping tumbling versions of the now”
― Robert Macfarlane, Ness

tags: now, time

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#6

“If I had all the money I spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink (Sir Henry at Rawlinson End)”
― Vivian Stanshall

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#7

“The brain unoccupied seems to get up to some mischief of its own. I waded about in thought streams or what JB Priestley has called the skull cinema”
― John Hillaby, Journey Through Britain

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#8

“Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
― Denis Diderot

tags: freedom, monarchy, religion

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#9

“I am something other than any living thing I have ever known.”
― Nick Papadimitriou, Scarp: In Search of London's Outer Limits

tags: individuality, otherness

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#10

“Fairies weren’t always pretty mites. That was just tales people told for babies.”
― Alison MacLeod, These Our Monsters: The English Heritage Book of New Folklore, Myth and Legend

tags: fairies

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#11

“With no foliage to subdue it, light blooms and burns in the wood, sending shadows of trees creeping down the slopes, over me, towards the river. It is as though their spirits have slipped from the trunks to drink.”
― Rob Cowen, Common Ground

tags: shadows, spirits, trees, winter, wood, woods

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#12

“I have found as I have grown older, much to my delight, that it is possible to get through most days without having to say anything to anyone at all.”
― Paul Kingsnorth, These Our Monsters

tags: older, silence, solitude

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#13

“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.”
― Laurence Sterne

tags: curiosity, inspirational

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#14

“Well if it didn’t happen I heard it told with a wonderful resemblance to the truth.”
― Ian Niall, A Galloway Childhood

tags: lies, stories, storytelling, truth

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#15

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: inspirational, religion

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#16

“δὶς ἐς τὸν αὐτὸν ποταμὸν οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης.
-You cannot step twice into the same river.”
― Heraclitus, quoted by Plato, Cratylus, 402a

tags: change, impermanence, quote, river

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#17

“[Tacitus] noted that the penalty for someone who dared peel the bark of a living tree (and thus kill the tree) was to have his navel cut out and nailed to the tree and then be driven around the tree until all his guts were wound about its trunk.”
― John Lewis-Stempel, The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood

tags: punishment, punishment-quotes, tree-quotes, trees

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#18

“Is a swear an inadequacy of language, the moment words fail us? Or is it the purest kind of language we have, second only to singing?”
― Jen Hadfield, Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland

tags: language, purity, swear-words, swearing

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#19

“Silence rides shotgun
wherever hate goes.”
― Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

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#20

“like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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#21

“The dark doorway opened after my knocks and a man filled the doorway, wearing a long anorak like a soaked shadow.”
― William Henry Searle, Threads: Finding pattern in the everyday

tags: darkness, doorway, shadow

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#22

“Iram, biram, brendon, bo,
Where did all the children go?
They went to the east. They went to the west.
They went where the cuckoo has its nest.”
― Alan Garner, Treacle Walker

tags: blue-eyes, children, cuckoo, folklore, lost, missing, turkey

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#23

“You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: arthur-dent

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#24

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

tags: history, memories, past

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#25

“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

tags: death-and-dying, inspirational, philosophy, poetry

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#26

“For some grief is an illness, an infection. But for others, a lucky few, it is a dust, and if you can survive that initial storm when the sky turns black and dirt falls in great clumps from the sky, if you can do that and just hang on, you will discover something. The dust left behind by grief is really soil, richer and deeper than any you could find on this earth. Collect it, gather it gently together inside of you and wait. In the same way a great tree must first take seed and then be given space to grow, the memory of those you have lost seeks a place to put down roots. Give grief time and in turn it will give you what you seek. A place for the memory of your loved one to reside inside you for the rest of your days. That is the purpose of grief.”
― Philip Allen Green, People of the ER

tags: dust, grief, growth, loss, seed

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#28

“Look — here it comes, its bones are plastic, it builds itself from pallet slat & bottle top, rises from sift, is lashed & trussed with fishing line. It is drift: it has cuttlefish nails & sea-poppy horns, it breathes in rain & it breathes out rust.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Ness

tags: drift, ness, orford-ness, sea

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“Of all the mean and wicked things a landlord can do, shutting up his footpath is the nastiest.”
― John Ruskin

tags: access, footpaths, freedom, land-rights, right-to-roam, trespass

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#29

“We have to tell stories to unriddle the world”
― Alan Garner

tags: books, curiosity, inspiration, reading, writing

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#30

“All houses wherein men have lived and died / Are haunted houses. Through the open doors / The harmless phantoms on their errands glide, / With feet that make no sound upon the floors.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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