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Top 25 Nan Shepherd Quotes (2025 Update)

Nan Shepherd Quote: “To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain.”

1. “To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain.”

— Nan Shepherd

Nan Shepherd Quote: “Yet often the mountain gives itself most completely when I have no destination, when I reach nowhere in particular, but have gone out merely to be with the mountain as one visits a friend with no intention but to be with him.”

2. “Yet often the mountain gives itself most completely when I have no destination, when I reach nowhere in particular, but have gone out merely to be with the mountain as one visits a friend with no intention but to be with him.”

— Nan Shepherd

Nan Shepherd Quote: “The first law of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else.”

3. “The first law of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else.”

— Nan Shepherd

Nan Shepherd Quote: “It is the eye that discovers the mystery of light, not only the moon and the stars and the vast splendours of the Aurora, but the endless changes the earth undergoes under changing lights.”

4. “It is the eye that discovers the mystery of light, not only the moon and the stars and the vast splendours of the Aurora, but the endless changes the earth undergoes under changing lights.”

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Nan Shepherd Quote: “Books work from the inside out. They are a private conversation happening somewhere in the soul.”

5. “Books work from the inside out. They are a private conversation happening somewhere in the soul.”

— Nan Shepherd

Nan Shepherd Quote: “It is when the body is keyed to its highest potential and controlled to a profound harmony deepening into something that resembles a trance, that I discover most nearly what it is to be. I have walked out of the body and into the mountain.”

6. “It is when the body is keyed to its highest potential and controlled to a profound harmony deepening into something that resembles a trance, that I discover most nearly what it is to be. I have walked out of the body and into the mountain.”

— Nan Shepherd

Nan Shepherd Quote: “Walking thus, hour after hour, the senses keyed, one walks the flesh transparent. But no metaphor, transparent, or light as air, is adequate. The body is not made negligible, but paramount. Flesh is not annihilated but fulfilled. One is not bodiless, but essential body.”

7. “Walking thus, hour after hour, the senses keyed, one walks the flesh transparent. But no metaphor, transparent, or light as air, is adequate. The body is not made negligible, but paramount. Flesh is not annihilated but fulfilled. One is not bodiless, but essential body.”

— Nan Shepherd

Nan Shepherd Quote: “To know, that is, with the knowledge that is a process of living.”

8. “To know, that is, with the knowledge that is a process of living.”

— Nan Shepherd

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

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

— Nan Shepherd

Nan Shepherd Quote: “So simply to look on anything, such as a mountain, with the love that penetrates to its essence, is to widen the domain of being in the vastness of non-being. Man has no other reason for his existence.”

10. “So simply to look on anything, such as a mountain, with the love that penetrates to its essence, is to widen the domain of being in the vastness of non-being. Man has no other reason for his existence.”

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Nan Shepherd Quote: “One cannot know the rivers till one has seen them at their sources; but this journey to sources is not to be undertaken lightly. One walks among elementals, and elementals are not governable. There are awakened also in oneself by the contact elementals that are as unpredictable as wind or snow.”

11. “One cannot know the rivers till one has seen them at their sources; but this journey to sources is not to be undertaken lightly. One walks among elementals, and elementals are not governable. There are awakened also in oneself by the contact elementals that are as unpredictable as wind or snow.”

— Nan Shepherd

Nan Shepherd Quote: “Gales brandished the half-denuded boughs and whirled the leaves in madcap companies about the roads. The whole world sounded. A roaring and a rustle and a creak was everywhere; and dust and dead leaves eddied in the gateways.”

12. “Gales brandished the half-denuded boughs and whirled the leaves in madcap companies about the roads. The whole world sounded. A roaring and a rustle and a creak was everywhere; and dust and dead leaves eddied in the gateways.”

— Nan Shepherd

Nan Shepherd Quote: “When the aromatic savour of the pine goes searching into the deepest recesses of my lungs, I know it is life that is entering. I draw life in through the delicate hairs of my nostrils.”

13. “When the aromatic savour of the pine goes searching into the deepest recesses of my lungs, I know it is life that is entering. I draw life in through the delicate hairs of my nostrils.”

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Nan Shepherd Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Nan Shepherd Quote: “Eye and foot acquire in rough walking a co-ordination that makes one distinctly aware of where the next step is to fall, even while watching sky and land.”

15. “Eye and foot acquire in rough walking a co-ordination that makes one distinctly aware of where the next step is to fall, even while watching sky and land.”

— Nan Shepherd

Nan Shepherd Quote: “These tracks give to winter hill walking a distinctive pleasure. One is companioned, though not in time.”

16. “These tracks give to winter hill walking a distinctive pleasure. One is companioned, though not in time.”

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Nan Shepherd Quote: “In September dawns I hardly breathe – I am an image in a ball of glass. The world is suspended there, and I in it.”

17. “In September dawns I hardly breathe – I am an image in a ball of glass. The world is suspended there, and I in it.”

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Nan Shepherd Quote: “Dried mud flats, sun-warmed, have a delicious touch, cushioned and smooth; so has long grass at morning, hot in the sun, but still cool and wet when the foot sinks into it, like food melting to a new flavour in the mouth. And a flower caught by the stalk between the toes is a small enchantment.”

18. “Dried mud flats, sun-warmed, have a delicious touch, cushioned and smooth; so has long grass at morning, hot in the sun, but still cool and wet when the foot sinks into it, like food melting to a new flavour in the mouth. And a flower caught by the stalk between the toes is a small enchantment.”

— Nan Shepherd

Nan Shepherd Quote: “What he values is a task that, demanding of him all he has and is, absorbs and so releases him entirely.”

19. “What he values is a task that, demanding of him all he has and is, absorbs and so releases him entirely.”

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Nan Shepherd Quote: “It is worth ascending unexiting heights if for nothing else than to see the big ones from nearer their own level.”

20. “It is worth ascending unexiting heights if for nothing else than to see the big ones from nearer their own level.”

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Nan Shepherd Quote: “Walking in mist tests not only individual self-discipline, but the best sort of interplay between persons.”

21. “Walking in mist tests not only individual self-discipline, but the best sort of interplay between persons.”

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Nan Shepherd Quote: “To apprehend things – walking on a hill, seeing the light change, the mist, the dark, being aware, using the whole of one’s body to instruct the spirit – yes, that is a secret life one has and knows others have. But to be able to share it, in and through words – that is what frightens me... It dissolves one’s being, I am no longer myself but a part of a life beyond myself when I read pages which are so much an expression of myself.”

22. “To apprehend things – walking on a hill, seeing the light change, the mist, the dark, being aware, using the whole of one’s body to instruct the spirit – yes, that is a secret life one has and knows others have. But to be able to share it, in and through words – that is what frightens me... It dissolves one’s being, I am no longer myself but a part of a life beyond myself when I read pages which are so much an expression of myself.”

— Nan Shepherd

Nan Shepherd Quote: “The presence of a person does not destruct from, but enhances the silence, if if the other person is the right sort of hill companion. The perfect hill companion is the one whose identity is for the time being merged in that of the mountains, as you feel your own to be.”

23. “The presence of a person does not destruct from, but enhances the silence, if if the other person is the right sort of hill companion. The perfect hill companion is the one whose identity is for the time being merged in that of the mountains, as you feel your own to be.”

— Nan Shepherd

Nan Shepherd Quote: “I have walked out of the body and into the mountain.”

24. “I have walked out of the body and into the mountain.”

— Nan Shepherd

Nan Shepherd Quote: “Like roundness, or silence, their quality is natural, but it is found so seldom in its absolute state that when we do so find it we are astonished.”

25. “Like roundness, or silence, their quality is natural, but it is found so seldom in its absolute state that when we do so find it we are astonished.”

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Nan Shepherd Quote: “Here then may be lived a life of the senses so pure, so untouched by any mode of apprehension but their own, that the body may be said to think.”

26. “Here then may be lived a life of the senses so pure, so untouched by any mode of apprehension but their own, that the body may be said to think.”

— Nan Shepherd

Nan Shepherd Quote: “To create the creator most be in naked touch with experience. He must know his material in the raw, not canned in books or the experience of others.”

27. “To create the creator most be in naked touch with experience. He must know his material in the raw, not canned in books or the experience of others.”

— Nan Shepherd

Nan Shepherd Quote: “The discrepancy between purpose and performance made me laugh aloud – a laugh that gave the same feeling of release as though I had been dancing for a long time.”

28. “The discrepancy between purpose and performance made me laugh aloud – a laugh that gave the same feeling of release as though I had been dancing for a long time.”

— Nan Shepherd

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