## Metadata - Author: [[Nan Shepherd]] - Full Title: The Living Mountain - Category: #books ## Highlights - Place and a mind may interpenetrate till the nature of both is altered. ([Location 472](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005GK7LQK&location=472)) - Lay the head down, or better still, face away from what you look at, and bend with straddled legs till you see your world upside down. How new it has become! From the close-by sprigs of heather to the most distant fold of the land, each detail stands erect in its own validity. In no other way have I seen of my own unaided sight that the earth is round. As I watch, it arches its back, and each layer of landscape bristles—though bristles is a word of too much commotion for it. Details are no longer part of a grouping in a picture of which I am the focal point, the focal point is everywhere. Nothing has reference to me, the looker. This is how the earth must see itself. ([Location 497](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005GK7LQK&location=497)) - Tags: [[favorite]] - The inaccessibility of this loch is part of its power. Silence belongs to it. If jeeps find it out, or a funicular railway disfigures it, part of its meaning will be gone. The good of the greatest number is not here relevant. It is necessary to be sometimes exclusive, not on behalf of rank or wealth, but of those human qualities that can apprehend loneliness. ([Location 535](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005GK7LQK&location=535))