The Living Mountain (Canons): A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland: 6

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Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. 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. Due to Covid-19 the concert ‘The Living Mountain’ at the Concertgebouw could not take place and is postponed to 2021. If you are a social media user, then we are able to do this through a pixel provided by Facebook, which allows Facebook to place cookies on your web browser.

Dried mud flats, sun-warmed, have a delicious touch, cushioned and smooth; so has long grass at morning, hot in the sun, but still cool and wet when the foot sinks into it, like food melting to a new flavour in the mouth. Shepherd makes the utmost of her senses while walking through the region, often also sleeping outdoors, or experiencing extreme weather phenomena.The Folio edition of The Diversity of Life features wonderful colour wildlife images and a foreword by Bill McKibben. This contains some of the most beautiful prose I’ve read in a long time but is not going to please everyone.

The greatest compliment I can give The Living Mountain as an album is that I have continued to hear it, echoing in my head as Nan Shepherd’s prose did before, long after the album has finished and I’ve left the house to go for a walk by the river or in the woods. como se fosse um novo elemento, e se a água ainda se fizer ouvir num murmúrio baixo e distante, esse silêncio não é mais do que a orla de um elemento que estamos a deixar para trás, tal como a orla de terra paira suspensa no horizonte do marinheiro. In spite of talking about little else than nature, it is far more an interior rumination on the author’s part. As the wind blew, I could hear the leaves rustle, first from far away, then closer and closer, until I felt the wind in my hair, with leaves rustling loudly overhead.He is the author of internationally prize-winning and bestselling books about nature, people and place, including Mountains of the Mind (2003), The Wild Places (2007), The Old Ways (2012), Landmarks (2015) and Underland (2019), as well as The Lost Words (2017) and The Lost Spells (2020), children’s books of nature spells created in partnership with the artist Jackie Morris.