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Richard Mabey
4 quotes
“It's a thing that happens to living creatures when they're in trouble, an inward journey. That's what the shutting down of everything is about. Regarding depression as an enemy is the worst possible thing you can do. It drains it of meaning. It makes it something exterior to yourself.”
Richard Mabey (born 1941) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The hedge kid", Interview by Olivia Laing, The Guardian, 22 December 2007
“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.”
Richard Mabey (born 1941) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Barley Bird: Notes on the Suffolk Nightingale (2010), quoted in
“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.”
Richard Mabey (born 1941) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In defence of nature writing", The Guardian, 18 July 2013
“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.”
Richard Mabey (born 1941) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald review: in danger of metaphor fatigue", The Telegraph, 8 September 2020