“I set a line and looked back at the valley. It was like a green open hand among the hills. The cliffs stood near and far, red, gray, black. In the valley chimneys began to smoke, one of them mine. Ingi was up. A green offering hand, our valley, corn-giver, fire-giver, water-giver, keeper of men and beasts. The other hand that fed us was this blue hand of the sea, which was treacherous, which had claws to it, which took more than ever it gave. Today it was peaceable enough. Blue hand and green hand lay together, like praying, in the summer dawn.” SeaOrkney Book:A Time To Keep and Other Stories Source: A Time To Keep and Other Stories
“The essence of Orkney's magic is silence, loneliness, and the deep marvellous rhythms of sea and land, darkness and light.” Orkney Author:George Mackay Brown
