" As I envisage it, landscape projects into us not like a jetty or peninsula, but instead as a kind of sunlight, flickeringly unmappable in its plays yet often quickening andilluminating. We are adept, if occassionally enbarrassed, at saying what we make of places-but we are far less good at saying what places make of us. For some time now it has seemed to me that the two questions we should ask of any strong landscape are these: firstly, what do i know when I am in this place that I can know nowhere else? And then, vainly, what does this place know of me that I cannot know of myself? "

― Robert Macfarlane , The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot