We tend to think of landscapes as affecting us most strongly when we are in them or on them, when they offer us the primary sensations of touch and sight. But there are also the landscapes we bear with us in absentia, those places that live on in memory long after they have withdrawn in actuality, and such places — retreated to most oftenwhen we are most remote from them — are among the most important landscapes we possess.
Robert Macfarlane – The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
