J. A. Baker Quotes

• Cold air rises from the ground as the sun goes down. The eye-burning clarity of the light intensifies. The southern rim of the sky glows to a deeper blue, to pale violet, to purple, then thins to grey. Slowly the wind falls, and the still air begins to freeze. The solid eastern ridge is black; it has a bloom on it like the dust on the skin of a grape. The west flares briefly. The long, cold amber of the afterglow casts clear black lunar shadows. There is an animal mystery in the light that sets upon the fields like a frozen muscle that will flex and wake at sunrise.

  J. A. Baker

  Fall, Eye, Animal

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• Vision with action can change the world.

  J. A. Baker

  Change, Leadership, Visions Of The Future

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• There is no mysterious essence we can call a 'place'. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind, and preserved in the amber of memory.

  J. A. Baker

  Memories, Essence, Mind

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• I have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs his smell into the cold unworldliness of water; to return to town a stranger. Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.

  J. A. Baker

  Smell, Water, Silence

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• Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.

  J. A. Baker

  Glory, Wander, Fades

  J. A. Baker (2011). “The Peregrine: The Hill of Summer & Diaries: The Complete Works of J. A. Baker”, p.28, HarperCollins UK

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• Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death.

  J. A. Baker

  Doe, Pits, Vapour

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