Genius Loci Quotes

The deep map configures narratives. It is a matrix of intertexual storytelling, charting our movements through the landscape.

You should open these doors with care and caution-but, first, you must know how to close them. And above all, you must know which doors should be left unopened...

Michael Bentine

It was Stevenson, I think, who most notably that there are some places that simply demand a story should be told of them. ...After all, perhaps Stevenson had only half of the matter. It is true there are places which stir the mind to think that a story must be told about them. But there are also, I believe, places which have their story stored already, and want to tell this to us, through whatever powers they can; through our legends and lore, through our rumors, and our rites. By its whispering fields and its murmuring waters, by the wailing of its winds and the groaning of its stones, by what it chants in darkness and the songs it sings in light, each place must reach out to us, to tell us, tell us what it holds. ("The Axholme Toll")

The place was silent and - aware.

P.C. Wren

It is good people who make good places.