“ Towards four o'clock the dew fell, and she smelled a gust of sweetness from the roses and a paleness showed in the sky to the East. It was cold; the wetness was cold on her hands and she felt her skir… Rumer Godden
“ … everything was fresh, green and particularly beautiful. Afternoon light, filtering between remnants of monsoon clouds, picked out gullies and spot-lit patches of forest and scrub on the convoluted r… Jane Wilson-Howarth
“ The mountains were so wild and so stark and so very beautiful that I wanted to cry. I breathed in another wonderful moment to keep safe in my heart. Jane Wilson-Howarth
“ The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us can hope, even in imagination, to scale the Everest and reach its summit when the s… Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar
“ There were only three names on the map of the region we had brought with us, but we now filled in more than two hundred. Heinrich Harrer
