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Tag: Quarry Wood

By Hole Ousia Posted on November 27, 2020November 28, 2024

‘Miss Ironside is specialising in life’

From ‘The Quarry Wood’ by Nan Shepherd

Categories: Folk worth talking about, Philosophy, Two culturesTags: Nan Shepherd, Quarry Wood, two cultures, vivendo discimus
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 30, 2020November 29, 2024

an ordinary Degree

I gained two ordinary degrees before becoming a specialist. Sian, my wife, has been a General Practitioner in all the time that we have been together. I am now retired … Continue reading an ordinary Degree

Categories: Medical humanities, Philosophy, Two culturesTags: Nan Shepherd, Quarry Wood, reading
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 30, 2020November 29, 2024

incredible shapes

A passage from The Quarry Wood by Nan Shepherd

Categories: This is Not yesterday, Time passes, Two culturesTags: Nan Shepherd, Peter Scott-Gordon, Quarry Wood, reading, shadows, shapes
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 30, 2020November 29, 2024

Omphalos films

[The  above quote “Shapes, sounds, the energies and acuteness of life,” is from The Quarry Wood by Nan Shepherd]

Categories: Two culturesTags: Nan Shepherd, Peter Scott-Gordon, Quarry Wood, reading, shadows, shapes
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 30, 2020November 29, 2024

There was no time

This is  from The Quarry Wood by Nan Shepherd

Categories: big braw cosmos, Time passesTags: comet seekers, Nan Shepherd, Quarry Wood
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 30, 2020November 29, 2024

She understood

[the full context of this quote can be found in The Quarry Wood]  

Categories: Medical humanities, Philosophy, Two culturesTags: Nan Shepherd, Quarry Wood, reading
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 30, 2020November 29, 2024

I like this place

The words are from The Quarry Wood by Nan Shepherd

Categories: Family history, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Nan Shepherd, Quarry Wood, reading, skies
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 30, 2020November 29, 2024

annotation by Peter

This was how I annotated a page in my copy of The Quarry Wood by Nan Shepherd.

Categories: Family historyTags: colours, Dux, Eileen, Grandma, Nan Shepherd, Quarry Wood, Rachel, reading, Sian, these colours

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