The Lost Words Quotes

“Each step is taken in an ocean.
Blue flows at the blue hour:
Colour is current, undertow.
Enter the wood with care, my love,
Lest you are pulled down by the hue,
Lost in the depths, drowned in blue.”
― Robert Macfarlane, The Lost Words

“Long you linger, listeners, hard you press your ears against our bark, but you will never sense our sap, and you will never speak in leaves, or put down roots into the rot - for we are willow and you are not.”
― Robert Macfarlane, The Lost Words