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> [“It’s a grand thing, to get leave to live”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nan-shepherd/it-s-a-grand-thing-to-get-leave-to-live/)

[Nan Shepherd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nan-shepherd/)

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## More by Nan Shepherd

> [“But at the end of February, out of a cold black north a dozen meandering snowflakes fell. They drifted about the air like thrums…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nan-shepherd/but-at-the-end-of-february-out-of-a-cold-black-north-a-dozen/)

[Nan Shepherd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nan-shepherd/)

> [“... haste can do nothing with these hills. I knew when I had looked for a long time that I had hardly begun to see.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nan-shepherd/haste-can-do-nothing-with-these-hills-i-knew-when-i-had-looked-for-a/)

[Nan Shepherd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nan-shepherd/)

> [“To Martha it seemed that she stood outside life. The world went by her, colourless shapes on a flat pale background. Nothing had solidity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nan-shepherd/to-martha-it-seemed-that-she-stood-outside-life-the-world-went-by-her/)

[Nan Shepherd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nan-shepherd/)

> [“So simply to look on anything, such as a mountain, with the love that penetrates to its essence, is to widen the domain of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nan-shepherd/so-simply-to-look-on-anything-such-as-a-mountain-with-the-love-that/)

[Nan Shepherd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nan-shepherd/)

> [“Am I such a slave as that? Dependent on a man to complete me! I thought I couldn't be anything without him- I can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nan-shepherd/am-i-such-a-slave-as-that-dependent-on-a-man-to-complete-me-i-thought/)

[Nan Shepherd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nan-shepherd/)

> [“Imagination is haunted by the swiftness of the creatures that live on the mountain - eagle and peregrine falcon, red deer and mountain hare.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nan-shepherd/imagination-is-haunted-by-the-swiftness-of-the-creatures-that-live-on/)

[Nan Shepherd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nan-shepherd/)

> [“It’s a grand thing, to get leave to live”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nan-shepherd/it-s-a-grand-thing-to-get-leave-to-live/)

[Nan Shepherd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nan-shepherd/)

> [“The Cairngorm water is all clear. Flowing from granite, with no peat to darken it, it has never the golden amber, the ‘horse-back brown’…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nan-shepherd/the-cairngorm-water-is-all-clear-flowing-from-granite-with-no-peat-to/)

[Nan Shepherd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nan-shepherd/)

> [“One cannot know the rivers till one has seen them at their sources; but this journey to sources is not to be undertaken lightly.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nan-shepherd/one-cannot-know-the-rivers-till-one-has-seen-them-at-their-sources/)

[Nan Shepherd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nan-shepherd/)

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