‘I knew when I had looked for a
long time that I had hardly begun to see.’
Her descriptions often moved beyond the material. Up on the mountain, after hours of walking
and watching: ‘the eye sees what it didn't see before, or sees in a new way
what it had already seen. so the ear, the other senses. These moments come
unpredictably, yet governed, it would seem, by a law who's working is dimly
understood. (Nan Sheppard, The Living Mountain, quoted
by Robert MacFarlane, Landmarks, p.66)
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