“Imagination is haunted by the swiftness of the creatures that live on the mountain - eagle and peregrine falcon, red deer and mountain hare. The reason for their swiftness is severely practical: food is so scarce up there that only… — Nan Shepherd Copy Share Image
“But at the end of February, out of a cold black north a dozen meandering snowflakes fell. They drifted about the air like thrums… — Nan Shepherd Copy Share Image
“... haste can do nothing with these hills. I knew when I had looked for a long time that I had hardly begun to see.” — Nan Shepherd Copy Share Image
“To Martha it seemed that she stood outside life. The world went by her, colourless shapes on a flat pale background. Nothing had solidity… — Nan Shepherd Copy Share Image
“So simply to look on anything, such as a mountain, with the love that penetrates to its essence, is to widen the domain of… — Nan Shepherd Copy Share Image
“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… — Nan Shepherd Copy Share Image
“Imagination is haunted by the swiftness of the creatures that live on the mountain - eagle and peregrine falcon, red deer and mountain hare.… — Nan Shepherd Copy Share Image
“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’… — Nan Shepherd Copy Share Image
“One cannot know the rivers till one has seen them at their sources; but this journey to sources is not to be undertaken lightly.… — Nan Shepherd Copy Share Image
