#robertmacfarlane

My Review.... In my opinion a book that deserves to be read and appreciated by all. It’s full of wonderful word play, acrostic poems, hidden words and beautiful, full page artwork. Good for young and old alike. If you love to read good descriptive work, this is one for you!

“‘Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind,’ in Wade Davis’s memorable phrase. We see in words: in webs of words, wefts of words, woods of words. The roots of individual words reach out and intermesh, their stems lean and criss-cross, and their outgrowths branch and clasp.” #RobertMacfarlane (Landmarks, 2015, p.10). If I had one fantasy it would be to write something that Robert Macfarlane considered a literary landmark and hear his reflections on it. I’ve never enjoyed reading someone else’s writing about someone else’s writing quite so much as I enjoyed each of the ten such writings in this work. But this isn’t just an annotated bibliography. This is a personal book, with the author’s own words reaching out and intermeshing all of these venerable works; an overstorey transforming the individual trees into an old-growth forest. What a gift. This book will go on the shelf next to Wall Kimmerer, Oliver, Shepherd, Leopold, Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson - my own forest, as it’s shaping up to be. #Nature #HumanNature #Language #Reading_Life #Reading (at Edmonton, Alberta) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca6L8xIOPkt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

🌬 The sun sets bright as a furnace But I'm not sure quite when my turn is I'm searching for a landmark Gazing out through the dark I need your reminding That the lighthouse is shining Oh when the winds are whipping at the big cut Licking at the quay wall We can feel the musterin' squall I wish that I could fly So I could be home and dry #JohnnyFlynn #RobertMacfarlane #HomeAndDry #thewayoutisthrough 𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕'𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒂 𝒖𝒏 𝒑𝒐𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒐 𝒅𝒊 𝒑𝒊𝒖' https://www.instagram.com/p/CR_Wl7-FZrq/?utm_medium=tumblr

🎶 There's a blackbird perched in the branches of the silver birch Growing from my chambered heart Singing through the rising dark Singing of the world to come #JohnnyFlynn #RobertMacfarlane #theworldtocome #Blackbird #birdsofinstagram #birdgardening #birdpeople #birdwatching #merlo (presso Montebelluna) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRwanu-N5RS/?utm_medium=tumblr

“We are part mineral beings too – our teeth are reefs, our bones are stones – and there is a geology of the body as well as of the land.” #RobertMacfarlane #Underland #whales #wip #writing #lit #ceramics #bodies #geology #clay #studioart #sculpture #contemporaryceramicsculpture #contemporaryart (at Cloverdale, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLN1j3djrPo/?igshid=29j8zadtt4uu

And here at last is part 1! #lostwords #robertmacfarlane #jackiemorrisartist #goldfinch #dandelion #poetry #wildlife #art #book https://www.instagram.com/p/B4gPUZPDlrM/?igshid=ijrki9eyb299

A sneak peak at the inside. #egret #acrostic #birdpoems #spellsongs #robertmacfarlane https://www.instagram.com/p/B4d1SpmDNvg/?igshid=1mvuhhsx2q0c

Part 2 of the magic has arrived. Still waiting on Part 1. #spellsongs #musicandpoetry #robertmacfarlane #jackiemorrisartist #folkbytheoak #creativecollaborations https://www.instagram.com/p/B4d0xMpDGNc/?igshid=18ycvx9jlo867