Nature Cure Quotes

“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 Mabey, Nature Cure

“I knew that migrant birds, crossing warring nations and increasingly unstable climate zones, had become our modern miners' canaries: they weave the world together too.”
― Richard Mabey, Nature Cure

“Once begun, a spell of anxiety is hard to break. The interruption of attention to the outside world creates a strange sense of unreality, of disjunction. You receive familiar images, but your concentration is elsewhere, focused inside your head. It's often described as having a glass wall between you and the world. Yet it can be a lens too. The wobble it gives to normal, unconsidered perception can lead to eerie heightenings of awareness.”
― Richard Mabey, Nature Cure

“A wood's aura of history seems to go back not just beyond what generations of humans have done to it, but beyond civilisation altogether. The forest, the wildwood, is the nature we think we have, in both senses, 'grown out of', and in woods you have always the feel of 'going back'. They are places of long memory, and resilience.”
― Richard Mabey, Nature Cure