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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America

by Bill Bryson

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Dawnthief (Chronicles of the Raven, #1)

by James Barclay (Goodreads Author)

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Set Adrift Upon the World: The Sutherland Clearances

by James Hunter

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Book cover for The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland (The Grampian Quartet Book 4)

The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland (The Grampian Quartet Book 4) by Nan Shepherd

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the true mark of long acquaintance with a single place is a readiness to accept uncertainty: a contentment with the knowledge that you must not seek complete knowledge.

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“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

tags: freedom

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“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."

[Notebook, Oct. 10, 1842]”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks: The Centenary Edition

tags: autumn, nature, sunshine

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“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“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, The Living Mountain

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