Walking Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.”

— 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…

— Robert Macfarlane

Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing.

— 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,…

— Robert Macfarlane

I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree.

— 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.”

— 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…

— Robert Macfarlane