“The India I Love, does not make the headlines, but I find it wherever I go - in field or forest, town or village, mountain or desert - and in the hearts and minds of people who have given me love and affection for the better part of my lifetime.” PeopleMindHeartDoeGivenFieldsMountainIndiaTownsLifetimeAffectionForestsDesertVillageHeart And MindHeadlinesLove And Affection Author:Ruskin Bond
“From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.” ReligionLandMountainRiversIndiaErrorsAncientGoldenChainsSandFountainSunnyStrandsIcyGreenland Book:The Poetical Works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok: Complete in One Volume Source: The Poetical Works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok: Complete in One Volume
“It is possible that in the 21st Century the Earth will not be inhabited by humans. One of the great mystics of India, a very simple man up in the mountains, somebody once asked him about the future. He said there will come a time when you'll walk five miles and you may see a light and you'll be so happy to know another being exists.” KnowsMenHumansMaySaidLightEarthSimpleWalksFiveCenturyMountainIndiaMiles21st CenturySimple Man Author:Ram Dass
“I was a young woman who had grown up in the mountains of Montana as a Protestant Methodist in a pretty good social gospel tradition. I became fascinated with the religious lives of others who seemed also to be very religious, yet in ways that were quite different from my own. That fascination led to relationships, in India and elsewhere, with families of Hindus, of Muslims, of Sikhs, and a lot of study.” WayDifferentYoungSocialReligiousMy OwnStudyMountainTraditionIndiaFascinatedElsewhereYoung WomenFascinationProtestantsLives Of OthersMontanaMethodistsReligious Life Author:Diana L. Eck
“I grew up going around with family, camping and living in a very beautiful mountain valley, knowing the names of the mountains and the rivers. I think it's no accident that I ended up studying the geography of India and knowing the names of the mountains and the rivers and all of that. I loved it. I think it gives a sense of space and a can-do-ness that was very powerful.” ThinkingGivingBeautifulNamesCan DoSpacePowerfulKnowingStudyGrewMountainGrew UpRiversIndiaAccidentsValleysGeographyVery PowerfulVery BeautifulCamping Author:Diana L. Eck
“Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the poor among the tribes, the poor who live in the forest, the poor who live on the mountains. Should we ignore them as long as the poor in the cities are better off? And better off with reference to what? To what people wanted ten years ago? Then it seemed like so much. Today it's no longer so much.” PeopleShouldYearsLongTodayWantedPoorCitiesPovertyTenMountainAspectYears AgoIndiaAssumingForestsTribesBetter Off Author:Indira Gandhi
“When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.” IfsWritingFactsEarthMovingClearFeetRocksMovementThousandMountainCreaturesOceanHighestIndiaTwentiesRemainsWarmSentencesSurfaceSnowFlagsMarineSummitSkeletonsEverestClimbersOne SentenceMt EverestLimestone Author:John McPhee
“India then being four-sided in plan, the side which looks to the Orient and that to the South, the Great Sea compasseth; that towards the Arctic is divided by the mountain chain of Hmdus from Scythia, inhabited by that tribe of Scythians who are called Sakai; and on the fourth side, turned towards the West, the Indus marks the boundary, the biggest or nearly so of all rivers after the Nile.” LooksSidesFourPlansSeaMountainRiversIndiaMarkWestSouthBoundariesChainsDividedFourthTribesArcticNile Author:Megasthenes
“China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years.” YearsMountainRiversIndiaChinaEnjoyedChineseIndianFriendlyLinkedNeighbourChina And India Author:Li Peng
“With eternal faith in Him, set fire to the mountain of misery that has been heaped upon India for ages - and it shall be burned down.” Has BeensAgeFaithFireMountainEternalIndiaMiseryBurned Book:Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation Source: Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation