How can we tell that the author has been to quarry woods?

We can tell the author has been to the Quarry Woods by his description.... his happy memories.

Dear old Quarry Woods! with your narrow, climbing paths, and little winding glades, how scented to this hour you seem with memories of sunny summer days! How haunted are your shadowy vistas with the ghosts of laughing faces! how from your whispering leaves there softly fall the voices of long ago!