Robert Macfarlane on Landscape and the Human Heart
Intelligence Squared
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The Living Mountain
He makes incredible things and he makes them from the things that he finds around himself. These are dead herons bound in a dance atop a polished boulder of dollarite. This is two actual wrens encased in this extraordinary bronze carapace. He then went and sold the hanging figure to a collector in Chicago. I walked across East Anglia or down its coast three times including with someone here. We skied the Ridgeway in high winter, I made many journeys into the Scottish mountains along drove roads. My grandfather was an extraordinary walker and traveller himself. Nan Shepherd who spent her life walking the Caineville Massif wrote a stone cold classic about it called the living
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