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Robert Macfarlane on nature, language, and music

Life Examined

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The Skin of the Earth

I will never tire of placing a hand, you know, on granite and feeling the pulse of the day's heat, but also of deep time coming through me. I took my nine year old scarfell pike in the lake district, which is the highest mountain in england, and just last week, and he gives a long, long awaited ambition for him. And by the time we'd got up to the top, it was three degrees and an visibility as as was very little, and the wind was whipping and he was crying. We'll learn from it, both of us and er. It works the other way course.

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