Rewild Yourself Quotes

“We’re not just losing the wild world. We’re forgetting it. We’re no longer noticing it. We’ve lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing. We’re beginning to think it’s not really our business. We’re beginning to act as if it’s not there any more.”
― Simon Barnes, Rewild Yourself: Making Nature More Visible in Our Lives

“Persuading your brain to become a little wilder is like trying to persuade a starving man to take a snack.”
― Simon Barnes, Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways to Make Nature More Visible

“The wildness that comes in the waiting. In the sitting.”
― Simon Barnes, Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible

“We can’t distinguish between male and female blue tits by sight: blue tits can because the male possesses an ultraviolet crest. Such a bird would find our three-coloured televisions incomprehensibly drab.)”
― Simon Barnes, Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways to Make Nature More Visible

“THE MAGIC TREE Everyone in that crowd turned its head, and then everyone drew a long breath of wonder and delight. A little way off, towering over their heads, they saw a tree which certainly had not been there before. – The Magician’s Nephew, C. S. Lewis”
― Simon Barnes, Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways to Make Nature More Visible