It is said that when God shaped the Earth from rocks and clay, He was so delighted with the work that before setting it spinning into space He gave it a last loving pat leaving a handprint. It was that heavenly handprint that created the Glens of Angus. As the poet John Angus expressed it: Four fair green glens reach far into the west, And of them all, the loveliest and best Is Esk - Glen Esk, by loving gesture given; God's little finger left the mark of heaven. There are few trees on the hills.