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chipmunk's cheeks. The fire treasure he had stuffed in his sock was starting to smolder.
Will Wight • Cradle, Path of Gold: Box Set (Cradle Collection Book 2)
Basho wrote his haiku in the simplest type of Japanese speech, naturally avoiding literary and “highbrow” language, so creating a style which made it possible for ordinary people to be poets. Bankei, his contemporary, did just the same thing for Zen,
Alan W. Watts • The Way of Zen
four decades, until Aberdeen University Press finally and quietly published it in 1977. That same year, Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia, Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts and John McPhee’s Coming into the Country appeared; a year later came Peter Matthiessen’s Zennish mountain epic, The Snow Leopard. To my mind, The Living Mountain stands equal
... See moreNan Shepherd • The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
—John Muir, Travels in Alaska, 1915
Thich Nhat Hanh • Love Letter to the Earth
—William Wordsworth, “The Green Linnet”