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Robert McFarland is an explorer and a linguist of landscape, and I have loved his writing

for years.

His book Underland, A Deep Time Journey, is an odyssey full of surprises through caves

and catechomes under land and under cities, under forests and the meltwater of Greenland.

Since before we were homo sapiens, he writes, humans have been seeking out spaces of darkness

in which to find and to make meaning.

Life in the natural world and in human life he suggests is a medium of vision and to

send a movement toward revelation.

In a moment in which a new relationship to the ground we stand on has become a civilizational

calling, Robert McFarland's way of seeing the world at once scholarly and playful, literary

and enchanting, refreshes and motivates in a most life-giving way.

Look at the gift of being now.

Look at the astonishing responsibility of legacy leaving.

There is one image at the heart as it were of Underland and of the Underland, which is

the hand, the opened palm, the stretched fingers.

And that we know first, as in a way the first mark of art, that the maker would place their

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