269 Quotes by Ruskin Bond

As Grandfather used to say, 'In a crowd, everyone plays follow-the leader, even when they don't know who's leading.

Yes, I'd love to have a garden of my own--spacious, and full of everything that is fragrant and flowering. But if I don't succeed, never mind--I've still got the dream.

I never cease to wonder at the tenacity of water - its ability to make its way through various strata of rock,zigzagging,back-tracking, finding space, cunningly discovering faults and fissures in the mountain, and sometimes traveling underground for great distances before emerging into the open. Of course, there's no stopping water. For no matter how tiny that little tickle, it has to go somewhere.

I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.

It wouldn't be much fun living on a planet where grass could not grow.

A tiger is a tiger; he has his dignity to preserve even though he isn't aware of it!

The deodar enjoys the company of its own kind: Where one deodar grows, there will be others. A walk in a deodar forest is awe-inspiring -- surrounded on all sides by these great sentinels of the mountains, you feel as though the trees themselves are on the march.

And when the rains were over and it was October and the birds were in song again, I could lie in the sun on sweet-smelling grass and gaze up through a pattern of oak leaves into a blind-blue heaven. And I would thank my God for leaves and grass and the smell of things, the smell of mint and myrtle and bruised clover, and the touch of things, the touch of grass and air and sky, the touch of the sky's blueness.

It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.