Blake Ellis

“Rain-fed, the spring’s stream surges seawards: gravity at work, or something like longing.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Is a River Alive?

“Interaction with animals nurtures the loving, empathetic, compassionate aspects of human nature. It taps into a primordial reverence towards the living world and a sense of the commonality and connectedness across species. It is a gateway, as I was discovering, into a state of greater respect for nature and the environment as a whole.”
― Chloe Dalton, Raising Hare: A Memoir

“History runs both fleet and slow, eddying back upon itself to shape spirals where flow meets counterflow. Life and death rise and fall – and the spring, as it has always done, organizes existence around itself, exerting something like will upon the land.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Is a River Alive?

“Shifting baseline syndrome’ is the name given to the process whereby ongoing damage to the natural world becomes normalized over time, as each new generation measures loss against an already degraded benchmark.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Is a River Alive?