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.

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....

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....

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