Quotes by Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

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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 e — Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
From my heel to my toe is a measured space of 29.7 centimetres or 11.7 inches. This is a unit of progress and it is also — Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
We tend to think of landscapes as affecting us most strongly when we are in them or on them, when they offer us the prim — Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass, dew — Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith. — Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot