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“In September dawns I hardly breathe - I am an image in a ball of glass. The world is suspended there, and I in it.”
― Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain

“Knowing another is endless. The thing to be known grows with the knowing.”
― Nan Shepherd

“My Uncle Malky always said the Lord Leto never responded to prayer. He said the Lord Leto looked on prayer as attempted coercion, a form of violence against the chosen god, telling the immortal what to do: Give me a miracle, God, or I won't believe in you!”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“Before you become a writer you must first become a reader. Every hour spent reading is an hour spent learning to write;”
― Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks