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Robert Macfarlane on Landscape and the Human Heart

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The Earliest Roads, the Indelible Roads

Thomas Keats was born in 1878 to Welsh parents in London. He had incredible stamina, he could walk 40 miles in a day feasibly and probably do it for two or three days on the trot. His poems are filled with landscapes, psychological landscapes. So we might say because I think that prepositions matter a great deal, we might say that Thomas didn't think only about landscape or didn’t think only on landscape. He thought in it and he thought with it.

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