Robert Macfarlane is a British nature writer and literary critic.
Educated at Nottingham High School, Pembroke College, Cambridge and Magdalen College, Oxford, he is currently a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and teaches in the Faculty of English at Cambridge.
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The hands have an infinity of pleasure in them. The feel of things, textures, surfaces, rough things like cones and bark, smooth things like stalks and feathers and pebbles rounded by water, the teasing of gossamers … the scratchiness of lichen, the warmth of the sun, the sting of hail, the blunt blow of tumbling water, the flow of wind – nothing that I can touch or that touches me but has its own identity for the hand as much as for the eye. (查看原文)
It's a poetic tribute to the beauty of nature, language, and different ways of perceiving the world. Also, it's a poignant reflection on why and how we are alienated from wonders of nature - starting from the words we use and as adults, pass on to next ge...
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0 有用 以启山林 2023-01-11 23:58:26 加拿大
作者力图通过地域、方言、俚语、术语，甚至新兴词汇，结合前人的著书立说，让我们能倾心听见地球的自然之声，体会生命的不同热度、浓度、密度。透过文字，我们阅读的目的也在于体验，“万物静观皆自得”，了解一个真实的自己，领略生命的馈赠，回归孩童般的本真。（最后一章“Childish”, 对孩子们的言和行的观察，也是画龙点晴之笔:)
0 有用 以启山林 2023-01-11 23:58:26 加拿大
作者力图通过地域、方言、俚语、术语，甚至新兴词汇，结合前人的著书立说，让我们能倾心听见地球的自然之声，体会生命的不同热度、浓度、密度。透过文字，我们阅读的目的也在于体验，“万物静观皆自得”，了解一个真实的自己，领略生命的馈赠，回归孩童般的本真。（最后一章“Childish”, 对孩子们的言和行的观察，也是画龙点晴之笔:)