269 Quotes by Ruskin Bond

On the open road there are no strangers. You share the same sky, the same mountain, the same sunshine and shade. On the open road we are all brothers. The.

To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast.

I believe that mountains do affect one’s personality, if one can remain among them long enough; and if Sunil had grown up in the hills instead of in a refugee township, I have no doubt he would have been a completely different person.

It’s courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.

There are two kinds of authors – subjective and objective. Introverts are more inward looking.

All of us need just one good accomplishment in order to get by. Obviously he can’t spend the rest of his life climbing trees, but it’s the agility and enterprise involved in the act that will make him a survivor. Enough.

Well, we are equals, in our fear as in our loneliness.

There is money to be made in the market place, but under the cherry tree there is rest.

Many people – car drivers anyway – think I’m a little eccentric. So be it. I probably am eccentric! But having come to the Himalayan foothills forty years ago in order to enjoy walking among them, I am not about to stop now, just because everyone else has stopped walking. The hills are durable in their attractions, and my legs have proved durable too, so why should we not continue together as before?