Robert Macfarlane on landscape and the human heart - IQ2 Talks

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How do the landscapes we love shape the people we are? For several years and more than a thousand miles, Robert Macfarlane has been following the vast network of old paths and routes that criss-cross Britain and its waters, and connect them to countries and continents beyond. His journeys have taken him from the chalk downs of southern England to the remote bird-islands of the Scottish north-west, from the disputed territories of Palestine to the pilgrimage routes of Spain and the sacred landscapes of the eastern Himalayas.
Along the way -- along the ways -- he has walked stride for stride with a 5,000-year-old man near Liverpool, followed the 'deadliest path in Britain', sailed an open boat far out into the Atlantic along an ancient sea-road, and crossed paths with walkers of many kinds: wanderers, wayfarers, shamans, trespassers, poets, devouts, ghosts and dawdlers.

[@jylyhughes5085]

I love Robert Macfarlane ...

[@stafdavies6527]

Robert Macfarlane is marvellous and profound about what we are losing

[@danjackson7758]

more and more hill tops near where i live are becoming lost to housing developments. horizons that were once open to all who cared to look, are becoming fenced off and greedily 'owned', so that only those who can afford those properties now have access to those vistas and horizons. there is a need and a craving in some people for far horizons, and being denied access to them almost feels the same as being imprisoned. properties should not be allowed to swallow up horizons into private ownership. to me, having access to far views is just as important as having access to public parks, many of which these days have degenerated into mere stretches of grass with a few trees dotted about to break up the monotony.

[@lucindajolly4195]

Apparently edward thomas was not killed by a shell blast leaving his body untouched as was told to his widow to protect her - he was killed by a bullet

[@kushkagirl]

BRILLIANT CONSTRUCTS

[@classy_dweller]

I worship the European landscapes,from Britain to the end of Europe at Ural Mountains and from Scandinavia to Mediterranean sea.Europe is indeed the most soothingly pretty Earth's mainland.The fairytale -like landscape of England and Scotland is matchless and those who dwell in it ought to keep it unmarred by utterly unfitting buildings as American-style sky-scrapers and Asian Mosques...

[@tenkuunokage]

what is intro theme?

[@SolaceEasy]

Lost me right after the intro. Path? WTF?

[@LearningDrummerSam]

It's called a poem... Oh dear

[@SnowElf_96]

Would love literaure from pre-Roman Europe of landscapes and their connections to it