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Robert Macfarlane quotes: It felt at that moment unarguable that a horizon line might exert as potent or pull upon the mind as a mountain's summit.

It felt at that moment unarguable that a horizon line might exert as potent or pull upon the mind as a mountain's summit.

Robert Macfarlane quotes: For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith.

For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith.

Robert Macfarlane quotes: Landscape ... can 'enlarge the imagined range for self to move in.

Landscape ... can 'enlarge the imagined range for self to move in.

Robert Macfarlane quotes: The instinct and the body (the felt smoothness of pebbles, the seen grain of light) must know in ways that the conscious mind cannot.

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 quotes: Felt pressure, sensed texture and perceived space can work upon the body and so too upon the mind, altering the textures and inclinations of thought.

Felt pressure, sensed texture and perceived space can work upon the body and so too upon the mind, altering the textures and inclinations of thought.

Robert Macfarlane quotes: Lift is created by the onwards rush of life over the curved wing of the soul.

Lift is created by the onwards rush of life over the curved wing of the soul.

Robert Macfarlane quotes: Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.

Robert Macfarlane quotes: Before you become a writer you must first become a reader. Every hour spent reading is an hour spent learning to write;

Before you become a writer you must first become a reader. Every hour spent reading is an hour spent learning to write;

Robert Macfarlane quotes: Kimmeridge (n.): The light breeze which blows through your armpit hair when you are stretched out sunbathing';

Kimmeridge (n.): The light breeze which blows through your armpit hair when you are stretched out sunbathing';

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

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

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

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

Robert Macfarlane quotes: These words: migrant birds, arriving from distant places with story and metaphor caught in their feathers;

These words: migrant birds, arriving from distant places with story and metaphor caught in their feathers;

Robert Macfarlane quotes: Paths are the habits of a landscape. They are acts of consensual making.

Paths are the habits of a landscape. They are acts of consensual making.

Robert Macfarlane quotes: I felt a sensation of candour and amplitude, of the body and mind opened up, of thought diffusing at the body's edges rather than ending at the skin.

I felt a sensation of candour and amplitude, of the body and mind opened up, of thought diffusing at the body's edges rather than ending at the skin.

Robert Macfarlane quotes: A walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.

A walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.

Robert Macfarlane quotes: We are adept, if occasionally embarrassed, at saying what we make of places - but we are far less good at saying what places make of us ...

We are adept, if occasionally embarrassed, at saying what we make of places - but we are far less good at saying what places make of us ...

Robert Macfarlane quotes: We are fallen mostly into pieces but the wild returns us to ourselves

We are fallen mostly into pieces but the wild returns us to ourselves

Robert Macfarlane quotes: Without a name made in our mouths, an animal or a place struggles to find purchase in our minds or our hearts.

Without a name made in our mouths, an animal or a place struggles to find purchase in our minds or our hearts.

Robert Macfarlane quotes: Perceive no opposition between precision and mystery, or between naming and not-knowing.

Perceive no opposition between precision and mystery, or between naming and not-knowing.