Nan Shepherd on going barehanded and barefooted
From “The Living Mountain”: The hands have an infinity of pleasure in them. When I was a girl, a charming old gentlewoman said something to me that I have…
Tag: cairngorms
“it is the August-blooming ling that covers the hills with amethyst”
from “The Living Mountain” by Nan Shepherd (previous Nan Shepherd posts here and here: Lower on the mountain, on all the slopes and shoulders and ridges and on the moors below, the…
On Silence
Following on my page on Rogues, I have decided to create another page compiling my various posts on silence. Silence comes into a lot of my posts, sometimes obliquely, sometimes less…
Silence in the Cairngorms – from Nan Shepherd’s “The Living Mountain”
Having disciplined mind and body to quiescence, I must discipline them also to activity. The senses must be used. For the ear, the most vital thing that can be listened…
October in the Cairngorms – from Nan Shepherd, “The Heart of the Mountain”
Among drifts of these purple glowing birches, an occasional rowan looks dead; its naked boughs are a smooth white-grey, almost ghastly as the winter light runs over them. The rowan’s…
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