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Robert Macfarlane on Landscape and the Human Heart

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The Longest Walk in the South Country

I covered long distances, about 30 miles a day at the tops I slept out. At the end of each day hip saw and coated in chalk dust looking faintly ghostly. Skylarks sing until getting on for midnight then they get up again at 4am. This was one of the places I spent a night by a near-lific barrow near Perten.

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