Robert Macfarlane Quotes

I Had Started Climbing Trees About Three Years Earlier, Or Rather, Re-started; For I Had Been At A School That Had A Wood For Its Playground. We Had Climbed And Christened The Different Trees (Scorpio, The Major Oak, Pegagsus), And Fought For Their Control In Territorial Conflicts With Elaborate Rules And Fealties. My Father Built My Brother And Me A Tree House In Our Garden, Which We Had Defended Successfully Against Years Of Pirate Attack. In My Late Twenties, I Had Begun To Climb Trees Again. Just For The Fun Of It: No Ropes, And No Danger Either.

In The Course Of My Climbing, I Learned To Discriminate Between Tree Species. I Liked The Lithe Springiness Of Silver Birch, The Alder And The Young Cherry. I Avoided Pines -- Brittle Branches, Callous Bark -- And Planes. And I Found That The Horse Chestnut, With Its Limbless Lower Trunk And Prickly Fruit, But Also Its Tremendous Canopy, Offered The Tree-climber Both A Difficulty And An Incentive.

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