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.

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....

a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.

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"....

We tend to think of landscapes as affecting us most strongly when we are in them or on them, when they....