The Living Mountain
1977 · 176 pages
Summits barely register. Shepherd spent a lifetime in the Scottish Cairngorms and writes about going into the mountain rather than up it, attending to water and frost until the seeing becomes the point.
★ 6.9
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The World-Ending Fire
The Essential Wendell Berry
2017 · 368 pages
An economy that uses up land and people is not efficient but suicidal, Berry argues. He writes from a Kentucky hillside he farms with horses, and insists eating is an agricultural act.
★ 5.4
The Man Who Planted Trees
1953 · 72 pages
In a dead Provencal valley a shepherd pushes acorns into the ground, one at a time. Thirty years and two wars later the forest holds ten thousand people who never learn his name.
★ 5.2