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Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane Quotes

Total quotes: 3

Robert Macfarlane

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Educated At: Nottingham High School, Magdalen College, Pembroke College

Nationality: United Kingdom

Occupations: University Teacher, Writer

Total quotes: 3

“'crown shyness' - phenomenon whereby individual tree crowns avoid overlap or touch, forming striking canopy patterns.”

— Robert Macfarlane

Tagged: Trees, Nature, Wonder of Nature, Beauty of Nature, canopy

“'ghost gear' - lost & abandoned fishing equipment in seas and oceans, totalling 10% of all plastic waste in the ocean & very harmful to marine life.”

— Robert Macfarlane

Tagged: ghost gear, Word, definition, Term, Marine Life, Nature, environment, Pollution, water pollution

“'Yggdrasil' - in Norse cosmology, the great ash tree at the cosmos's centre, the branches & roots of which connect different realms & times, allowing passage from underworld to heaven.
One of many such 'world-trees' that stand rooted in global cultures.”

— Robert Macfarlane

Tagged: Word, definition, Term, yggdrasil, Cosmology, Cosmos

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