Quotes by : Robert Macfarlane

Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering....

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.

From my heel to my toe is a measured space of 29.7 centimetres or 11.7 inches. This is a unit of progress....

What we bloodlessy call 'place' is to young children a wild compound of dream, spell and substance: place....

Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand,....

Books , like landscapes, leave their marks in us. (...) Certain books, though, like certain landscapes,....

The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away....

The word "landmark" is from the old English "landmearc", meaning 'an object in the landscape which, by....

For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the....

As de Saussure said, risk-taking brings with it its own reward: it keeps a "continual agitation alive"....