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“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
― Cesare Pavese

“In the silence, I could hear the distinct sound of goats maa-ing in the barn. Lying there listening to them made me smile, too. I'd always loved goats - every one of them different from every other one, and all of them goofy and playful.”
― Steve Watkins, What Comes After

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

“For him, as for so many other people, the mind was a landscape of a kind and walking a means of crossing it.”
― Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

“I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree.”
― Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

“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, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

“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, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

“The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.”
― Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

“To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear which is causes us, now to confront unjust power, again to insult intoxicated victory, to hold firm and withstand -- such is the example which nations need and the light which electrifies them.”
― Victor Hugo