

“And the last puff of the day-wind brought from the unseen villages the scent of damp wood-smoke, hot cakes, dripping undergrowth, and rotting pine-cones. That is the true smell of the Himalayas, and if once it creeps into the blood of a man, that man will at the last, forgetting all else, return to the hills to die. —Rudyard Kipling”
― The Writer on the Hill: The Very Best of Ruskin Bond
― The Writer on the Hill: The Very Best of Ruskin Bond

“Botanists have done their best to intimidate and confuse the nature lover. But we should not allow ourselves to be discouraged; we have as much right to the enjoyment of wild flowers as they. So I will disregard the botanist and I will go looking for the pretty flower that I have named Merry Heart. It is always nodding and dancing in the breeze. It is a happy flower, deserving of a happy, light name.”
― A Book of Simple Living: Brief Notes from the Hills
― A Book of Simple Living: Brief Notes from the Hills

“and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”
― Scenes from a Writer's Life
― Scenes from a Writer's Life

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