Robert MacFarlane describes footnotes in a literal way that i quite like in his book The old ways : « it is true that I remember the terrains over which I have walked barefoot differently, if not necessarily better, then those I have walked shod. I recalled them as textures, sensations, resistances, planes and slopes: The tactile details of a landscape that often pass unnoticed. They are durably imprinted memories, these footnotes, born on the skin of the walker meeting the skin of the land ».
Robert MacFarlane describes footnotes in a literal way that i quite like in his book The old ways : « it is true that I remember the terrains over which I have walked barefoot differently, if not necessarily better, then those I have walked shod. I recalled them as textures, sensations, resistances, planes and slopes: The tactile details of a landscape that often pass unnoticed. They are durably imprinted memories, these footnotes, born on the skin of the walker meeting the skin of the land ».