“…because objects from this astonishing place carry the aura of this astonishing place with them even after they have been detached from it, and travelled/ traded to a distant region. Story moves with them; people speak, as they pass them on, of the skein of something-like-sacredness that these special stones carry. Their power is far greater than their function alone.”-Robert Macfarlane

 “...stretches of a path might carry memories of a person just as a person might of a path.”

Robert Macfarlane in Ghostways

"To perceive matter that casts no shadow, you must search not for its presence but for its consequence." Robert Macfarlane in Underland