Richard Mabey quotes
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“An organism exists for no other reason than that it is able to... The wonderful, almost transcendent thing about life on earth is that in order to so exist, organisms must relate to each other and to the earth itself.”
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“To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.”
-- Richard MabeySource : Richard Mabey (2013). “The Ash and The Beech: The Drama of Woodland Change”, p.6, Random House
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“Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and culture.”
-- Richard MabeySource : Richard Mabey (2005). “Nature Cure”, p.226, University of Virginia Press
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“Perhaps knowing one place intimately is to have a way of knowing all places.”
-- Richard MabeySource : "Pastoral suite" by Richard Mabey, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.
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“Weeds are out most successful cultivated crop.”
-- Richard Mabey
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Source : Speech to Economic and Social Council of United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 9 July 1965
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“We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.”
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Source : A.A. Gill (2008). “Previous Convictions: Assignments from Here and There”, p.80, Simon and Schuster
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