Quotes from Ruskin Bond

Money often costs too much.' —Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

But men are cutting down the trees without replacing them. For every tree that's felled, we must plant two. Otherwise, one day there'll be no forests at all, and the world will become one great desert.

On the open road we are all brothers.

And until death comes, all is life.

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

As I walked home last night I saw a lone fox dancing In the cold moonlight. I stood and watched. Then Took the low road, knowing The night was his by right. Sometimes, when words ring true, I'm like a lone fox dancing In the morning dew.

life had since become fast and cruel and unreflective, and people were too busy counting their gains to bother about the idols of their youth.

She walked home through the darkening glade, singing of the stars; and the trees stood still and listened to her, and the mountains were glad.

strange, how lovers cannot bear that the world should not know their love

I knew I was free; that I had always been free; held back only by my own weakness, lacking impulse and the imagination to break away from an existence that had become habitual for years.

Sometimes the weak will last for years, while the strong will suddenly collapse and die.

That man is strongest who stands alone!

We said nothing for some time but we couldn't have been more eloquent.

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

I think I have learnt something of the value of stillness. I don't fret so much; I laugh at myself more often; I don't laugh at others. I live life at my own pace. Like a banyan tree. Is this wisdom, or is it just old age?

Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There's nothing wrong with them, but they are missing out on one of life's compensations and rewards.

It's fine to dream, provided we can deal with the reality when we wake up

with every lie we surrender a little of our peace of mind

You do not retreat from a road-block; you make your way around it, or look for another route to where you are going. And you learn to zigzag ... Take a different route, albeit a longer one.

All I wanted was a quiet life, a writing pad, books to read, flowers to gaze upon, and sometimes a little love, a little kiss…

It is supposed to be in very bad taste to discuss a person behind his back; and to discuss a dead person behind his back is most unfair, for he cannot even retaliate.

Men may sometimes be rather similar, but no two women are ever alike.

The tree made it's first move, the first overture of friendship. It allowed a leaf to fall.