In Scotland, landowners aren’t required to maintain a right of way, but they must not obstruct it and have a duty of care to people on their land. The “right to responsible access” means people aren’t necessarily restricted to paths and can walk across uncropped fields where no path exists.
Farmer’s Weekly
Sur la piste, vita
A sign I saw today as I came out of the final forest, and which I understood to mean ‘on the path, life’
For architecture, among all the arts, is the one that most boldly tries to reproduce in its rhythm the order of the universe
Unberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Or rather dost thou tread
Thomas Hood
Those cloudy summits thence to gaze
below, like the wild chamois
Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest […] without diversion
Blaise Pascal
The rolling farmlands of France are behind, to be replaced by the ridges and valleys of the Jura mountains, gateway to Switzerland
Sandy Brown, the Cicerone Guide to the Via Francigena
Jorges Louis Borges
The tall unknowable city takes over the countryside. […]
They speak of homeland.
My homeland is […]
the willow grove’s visible prayer as evening falls.
Time is living me.
More silent than my shadow, I pass through the loftily covetous multitude.
They are indispensable, singular, worthy of tomorrow.
My name is someone and anyone.
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away
he doesn’t expect to arrive.
Walking The Landscape 