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STRANGER’S CHILD Sparrow in the cobbled street, Little sparrow round and sweet, Chaucer’s bird— or if a leaf Sparkle among leaves, among the season’s Leaves— The sparrow’s feet, Feet of the sparrow’s child touch Naked rock.
Garth Greenwell • Small Rain
We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men. . . . In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
“The Wild or Green Man figure comes up over and over in this part of the country,” he said at one point, “and is obviously the modern interpretation of one of the so-called ‘old gods,’ a tutelary spirit or woodland demigod. I think the myth is separate from—although similar to—to the myths of the Fairy King, because regardless of the Wild Man’s
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When I left Lewis, I wondered whether I’d ever again fall so deeply into the dreaming of any other land. Whether I’d ever feel myself so keenly to be a part of its stories, a member of its dreaming community. Though there has never been for me another relationship as profound as my relationship with the land on Lewis, moving to Donegal showed me
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in each village there are unique words describing concepts of their environment - a connection to land where these words are needed.
Robert Macfarland and the peat glossary isle of lewis off scottland:
eit - placing quartz stones in the steam to reflect moonlight and attract salmon in the summer months
shreep - mist that is slowly clearing