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“my eyes were in my feet”
― Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain

“This is the river. Water, that strong white stuff, one of the four elemental mysteries, can here be seen at its origins. Like all profound mysteries, it is so simple that it frightens me. It wells from the rock, and flows away. For unnumbered years it has welled from the rock, and flowed away. It does nothing, absolutely nothing, but be itself.”
― Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain

“In tiefen, kalten, hohlen Räumen,
Wo Schatten sich mit Schatten paaren,
Wo alte Bücher Träume träumen,
Von Zeiten, als sie Bäume waren,
Wo Kohle Diamant gebiert,
Man weder Licht noch Gnade kennt,
Dort ist's, wo jener Geist regiert,
Den man den Schattenkönig nennt.”
― Walter Moers, The City of Dreaming Books

“It is worth ascending unexiting heights if for nothing else than to see the big ones from nearer their own level.”
― Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain