Published at last in 1977 and reissued in 2011 with an introduction by the British nature writer Robert Macfarlane, “The ...

Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain is a meditation on the Cairngorms. Decades on, its quiet wisdom remains urgent, reminding us how to truly see nature.

Recently, I listened to “The Living Mountain” on audiobook. And as I walked around the grubby streets of New York, or sat on the subway, surrounded by so many people and so little nature ...