“History issues from geography in the same way that water issues from a spring: unpredictably but site specifically.”

— Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways

“It is an assistance to the memory if places are stamped upon the mind … For when we return to a place after a considerable absence, we not merely recognize the place itself, but remember things that we did there, and recall the persons whom we met and even the unuttered thoughts which passed through our minds when we were there before.”

— Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria XI, ii, 17–22, trans. H.E. Butler

“Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after.”

— Virginia Woolf, Orlando