“I had set out to come to know Thomas by walking where he had walked, but he had mostly eluded me, remaining a Lob-like figure glimpsed now and then at a bend on the path or through a hole in the hedge, still enigmatic. And yet I had learnt so much from the people I'd met along my journeys: people for whom, as for Thomas, landscape was intricately involved with self-perception, and for whom certain places or weathers brought yields of grace.” WalkingLandscapePlacesSelf PerceptionJourneysGlimpsesEdward ThomasWeathers Book:The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot Source: The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
“Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and the soles of our feet, shaped by the surfaces they press upon, are landscapes themselves with their own worn channels and roving lines. They perhaps most closely resemble the patterns of ridge and swirl revealed when a tide has ebbed over flat sand” WorldActionLinesFeetPressesPatternsSurfaceImpressionLandscapeSandFlatsGesturesTidesWornReciprocalRidgesSwirlsRoving Author:Robert Macfarlane
“A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something perhaps even more valuable: a kind of language-magic, the power that certain words possess to enchant our imaginative relations with Nature and landscape.” KindCertainFallLostLanguageMagicRelationValuableLandscapeLiteracyImaginative Author:Robert Macfarlane
