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Author - Robert Macfarlane
Quotes by : Robert Macfarlane
climbing
Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering....
walking
From my heel to my toe is a measured space of 29.7 centimetres or 11.7 inches. This is a unit of progress....
place
What we bloodlessy call 'place' is to young children a wild compound of dream, spell and substance: place....
memories
Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand,....
landscapes
Books , like landscapes, leave their marks in us. (...) Certain books, though, like certain landscapes,....
literature
The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away....
direction
The word "landmark" is from the old English "landmearc", meaning 'an object in the landscape which, by....
pathways
a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.
path
For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the....
mountain climbing
As de Saussure said, risk-taking brings with it its own reward: it keeps a "continual agitation alive"....
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