#ghostways

[whisperthatruns]

Look---here he comes, his bones are willow & he sings in birds. He rises in marsh, slips forwards by ripple & shiver. Between his tree-ribs birds flutter, then swoop ahead to settle, sing, quiver. His head is a raven’s, his eyes are wrens’ nests. By day from his throat fly finch & fire-crest & in anger he speaks only in swifts.

Look---here she comes, her skin is lichen & her flesh is moss & her bones are fungi, she breathes in spores & she moves by hyphae. She is a rock-breaker, a tree-speaker, a place-shaper, a world-maker.

Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood, from Ness, Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places (W. W. Norton & Company, 2020; orig. pub. 2018)

[krikidilly]

grabbing you. CONSIDER: V and Ant scemo style. OR-or. as aminals. the ghostway goobies

NO V NO DONT WATCH THAT

[godzilla-reads]

📖 Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood, and Dan Richards

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

This book was… different from what I expected. It’s split into two sections, “Ness” and “Holloway”. Each had its good qualities, but each also had negative qualities. Ness was very poetic, but at times it didn’t make sense. Holloway was touching, but it was short and felt thrown together.

By the end of this I was left thinking: did I actually “get this”? Did I understand what it meant?

If I didn’t understand the words, the pictures were at least very beautiful.

[whisperthatruns]

She is not green but she makes green. Colour is not a possessed property. You cannot see her if you look straight at her. Like the pigmentless fur of certain moles which turns light gold, though they have no life of light & no need of gold; like the feather-stream on a kingfisher's back which bends light through its barbs & splits it into blue water & blue jewels, she makes green & green fills the air around her & warps hard into objects within her radiance.

Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood, from Ness, Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places (W. W. Norton & Company, 2020; orig. pub. 2018)

[whisperthatruns]

Moths are clustering and flocking softly in vast numbers around the bomb, settling on it first as snow might fall on land then as coccolithophores might rock to ocean floor, building up in depth, thorax to thorax and wing to wing, leaving tiny glittering squares of wing powder, until they reach such vibrant density that it seems to those in the Green Chapel that they might contain anything, block out any source of light, soften any blow.

Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood, from Ness, Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places (W. W. Norton & Company, 2020; orig. pub. 2018)

[sachwlang]

In 'Ghostways,' A Trip To Two Well-Traveled Places Reminds Of Things That Are Lost : NPR

In ‘Ghostways,’ A Trip To Two Well-Traveled Places Reminds Of Things That Are Lost : NPR

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Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places, by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood (illustrator) and Dan Richards

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