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,....

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

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....