“ Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass, dew, earth or moss.... We easily forget that we are track-markers, through, because… Robert Macfarlane
“ As de Saussure said, risk-taking brings with it its own reward: it keeps a "continual agitation alive" in the heart. Hope, fear. Hope, fear - this is the fundamental rhythm of mountaineering. Life, it… Robert Macfarlane
“ Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and a powerful solace in them. At bottom, mountains, like all wildernesses,… Robert Macfarlane
“ For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith. Robert Macfarlane
“ Books , like landscapes, leave their marks in us. (...) Certain books, though, like certain landscapes, stay with us even when we left them, changing not just our weathers but our climates. Robert Macfarlane
“ We tend to think of landscapes as affecting us most strongly when we are in them or on them, when they offer us the primary sensations of touch and sight. But there are also the landscapes we bear wit… Robert Macfarlane
“ From my heel to my toe is a measured space of 29.7 centimetres or 11.7 inches. This is a unit of progress and it is also a unit of thought. 'I can only meditate when I am walking,' wrote Jean-Jacques… Robert Macfarlane
“ The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells. Robert Macfarlane
“ What we bloodlessy call 'place' is to young children a wild compound of dream, spell and substance: place is somewhere they are always 'in', never 'on'. Robert Macfarlane
“ The word "landmark" is from the old English "landmearc", meaning 'an object in the landscape which, by its conspicuousness, serves as a guide in the direction of one's course. Robert Macfarlane
“ Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion. Robert Macfarlane
