Nan Shepherd Quote

Knowing another is endless...The thing to be known grows with the knowing.

Nan Shepherd

Knowing another is endless...The thing to be known grows with the knowing.

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About Nan Shepherd

Anna "Nan" Shepherd (11 February 1893 – 27 February 1981) was a Scottish modernist writer and poet, who authored the memoir, The Living Mountain, based on experiences of hill walking in the Cairngorms. The work was has been cited as influential by nature writers Robert Macfarlane and Richard Mabey. She also wrote poetry and three novels set in small fictional communities in Northern Scotland. The landscape and weather of this area play a major role in her novels and provide a focus for her poetry.
For most of her working life, Shepherd was a lecturer in English at the Aberdeen College of Education.