TRAVEL

'It's a piece of weakness and folly merely to value things because of their distance from the place where we are born, thus men have traveled far enough in the search of foreign plants and animals, and yet continue strangers to those produced in their own natural climate.' 

Martin Martin in Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways,  p.78. 

PATHS

'Paths are the habits of a landscape. They are acts of consensual making. It's hard to create a footpath on your own...

Paths are consensual, too, because without common care and common practice they disappear: overgrown by vegetation, ploughed up or built over...' 

Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways:A Journey on Foot, p.17. 

MARRIAGE

'...a journey is like a marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.'

John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America, p.4.