Rik quoted The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd
The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain: said a newspaper of …
Yet often the mountain gives itself most completely when I have no destination, when I reach nowhere in particular, but have gone out merely to be with the mountain as one visits a friend with no intention but to be with him.
— The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd (32%)
I love this book for being so personal and beautifully worded.