269 Quotes by Ruskin Bond

For the most time I’ve followed instinct rather than intelligence, and this has resulted in a modicum of happiness.

I write a story in my head. I see the story like a movie.

A Quiet Mind Lord, give me a quiet mind, That I might listen; A gentle tone of voice, That I might comfort others; A sound and healthy body, That I might share In the joy of walking And leaping and running; And a good sense of direction So I might know just where I’m going!

I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.

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.

So on we tramped, three small dots on a big mountain, mere specks, beings of no importance. In creating this world, God showed that he was a great mathematician; but in creating man, he got his algebra wrong. Puffed up with self-importance, we are in fact the most dispensable of all his creatures.

A merry heart does good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.

To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks.

And the earth itself. It smells differently in different places. But its loveliest fragrance is known only when it receives a shower of rain. And then the scent of wet earth rises as though it were giving something beautiful back to the clouds – a blend of all the fragrant things that grow in it.