Richard Mabey Quotes
born 1941 England
Richard Thomas Mabey (born 20 February, 1941) is a writer and broadcaster, chiefly on the relations between nature and culture.
- England
- Environmentalists
- Non-fiction authors
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The light is extraordinary – luminous, dusty, giving every pale surface the lustre of mother-of-pearl. Mounds of cow parsley and scythed grass glow in the moonbeams like suspended balls of mist.
The Barley Bird: Notes on the Suffolk Nightingale (2010)
I wonder if, in the future, we will regard this insistent urge to use wild beings as “proxies” as a kind of cultural appropriation, and begin to see the living world as a commonwealth, not a colony.
Finding words to bridge that divide between the otherness of nature – a swift sleeping on the wing 5,000ft up, and the life-choosing immediacy, the intimate familiarity of the rush of wings past the face – is what most nature writers are striving to do, not wallow in some vanished pastoral world.