“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 most of our journeys now occur on asphalt and concrete--and these are substances not easily impressed.” HumansMadeEarthWalksForgetAnimalJourneyTrackSnowSubstanceGrassSandPassagesConcreteImpressedMudDewMossMarkersAsphalt 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, mountains refute our excessive trust in the man-made. They pose profound questions about our durability and the importance of our schemes. They induce, I suppose, a modesty in us.” MenMadeForceGreaterMountainImportanceProfoundModestySchemesConfrontingInvokeMountain ClimbingMountain TopDurability Book:Mountains Of The Mind Source: Mountains Of The Mind
