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Shepherd – like Neil Gunn and like the Scottish explorer–essayist W.H. Murray – was strongly influenced by her reading in Buddhism and the Tao.
Nan Shepherd • The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
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 t
... See moreNan Shepherd • The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
You’re not cutting a new trail, or clearing a grove, or … I don’t know, having a party out here. You’re taking a walk with me, and once that’s done, we’ll head right back to the road. I assure you the forest will forget you were here in no time.
Becky Chambers • A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot Book 1)
