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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-macfarlane/the-compact-between-writing-and-walking-is-almost-as-old-as/)

[Robert Macfarlane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-macfarlane/)

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## More by Robert Macfarlane

> [“The association of the wild and the wood also run deep in etymology. The two words are thought to have grown out of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-macfarlane/the-association-of-the-wild-and-the-wood-also-run-deep-in-etymology/)

[Robert Macfarlane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-macfarlane/)

> [“We are adept, if occasionally embarrassed, at saying what we make of places - but we are far less good at saying what places…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-macfarlane/we-are-adept-if-occasionally-embarrassed-at-saying-what-we-make-of/)

[Robert Macfarlane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-macfarlane/)

> [Anyone who lives in a city will know the feeling of having been there too long. The gorge-vision that the streets imprint on us,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-macfarlane/anyone-who-lives-in-a-city-will-know-the-feeling-of-having-been-there/)

[Robert Macfarlane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-macfarlane/)

> [“I had started climbing trees about three years earlier, or rather, re-started; for I had been at a school that had a wood for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-macfarlane/i-had-started-climbing-trees-about-three-years-earlier-or-rather-re/)

[Robert Macfarlane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-macfarlane/)

> [“The whole foot is a document of motion, inscribed by repeated action. Babies - from those first foetal footfalls, the kneading of sole against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-macfarlane/the-whole-foot-is-a-document-of-motion-inscribed-by-repeated-action/)

[Robert Macfarlane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-macfarlane/)

> [“My grandparents... planted their land up with trees, both those native... and exotics which stood in memory of the countries where they had lived.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-macfarlane/my-grandparents-planted-their-land-up-with-trees-both-those-native/)

[Robert Macfarlane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-macfarlane/)

> [“Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and the soles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-macfarlane/touch-is-a-reciprocal-action-a-gesture-of-exchange-with-the-world-to/)

[Robert Macfarlane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-macfarlane/)

> [Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-macfarlane/knowing-another-is-endless-shepherd-had-written-the-thing-to-be-known/)

[Robert Macfarlane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-macfarlane/)

> [By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-macfarlane/by-speaking-of-greater-forces-than-we-can-possibly-invoke-and-by/)

[Robert Macfarlane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-macfarlane/)

> [I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-macfarlane/i-remembered-what-thoreau-had-written-in-his-journal-about-thinking/)

[Robert Macfarlane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-macfarlane/)

> [“...the instinct and the body (the felt smoothness of pebbles, the seen grain of light) must know in ways that the conscious mind cannot.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-macfarlane/the-instinct-and-the-body-the-felt-smoothness-of-pebbles-the-seen/)

[Robert Macfarlane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-macfarlane/)

> [“meaning indifferent to the distinction between things. It is not, on the whole, that natural phenomena and entities themselves are disappearing; rather that there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-macfarlane/meaning-indifferent-to-the-distinction-between-things-it-is-not-on/)

[Robert Macfarlane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-macfarlane/)

> [“When the lark sing he feels invulnerable.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-macfarlane/when-the-lark-sing-he-feels-invulnerable/)

[Robert Macfarlane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-macfarlane/)

> [“...he suggested that paths were imprinted with the 'dreams' of each traveler who had walked it and that his own experiences would in course…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-macfarlane/he-suggested-that-paths-were-imprinted-with-the-dreams-of-each/)

[Robert Macfarlane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-macfarlane/)

> [ “Although the disappearance of the true wildwood \[in the British Isles\] occurred in the Neolithic period, before humanity began to record its own history,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-macfarlane/although-the-disappearance-of-the-true-wildwood-in-the-british-isles/)

[Robert Macfarlane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-macfarlane/)

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