The Gifts of Reading by Robert Macfarlane
Author:Robert Macfarlane
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780241982709
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2017-05-09T04:00:00+00:00
To receive such an open-hearted email was itself a kind of gift, further proof of Hyde’s propositions that the gift can be transformative and that the act of giving encourages the onwards circulation of generosity. It reminded me also of Shepherd’s vision of nature itself as abounding with gifts: offering wonders and beauties but asking nothing of its recipients in return. ‘To see the Golden Eagle at close quarters,’ she writes in The Living Mountain:
requires knowledge and patience – though sometimes it may be a gift, as when once, just as I reached a summit cairn, an eagle rose from the far side of it and swept up in majestic circles above my head: I have never been nearer to the king of birds.
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