Rannoch Moor / Jungfrau-4

Kate,

The book you sent us, "The Wild Places" by Robert MacFarlane left me speechless (not easy to do!). It descibes, with amazing insight, why nature strikes a cord in some people - and how it becomes central to life and to their life-long esthetics and passion.

It was a double impression becuase it brought back the word moor (Pàramo in Spanish) - a word that I've learned while reading my first English language books. It is in chapter four that the author crosses Rannoch Moor - and above I inclue a representative photo of the place.

An some extracts:

"A long ... tradition exists that considers all individuals as peregrini, in that all human life is seen as an exile"

"Ideas. like waves, hace fetches. They arrive with us having travelled vast distances, and their pasts are often invisible, or barely imaginable"