The Room of Many Colours Quotes

“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.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Room of Many Colours: A Treasury of Stories for Children

“Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I’ll protect it now. ‘One day the trees will move again,’ said Grandfather. ‘They’ve been standing still for thousands of years, but one day they’ll move again. There was a time when trees could walk about like people, but along came the Devil and cast a spell over them, rooting them to one place. But they’re always trying to move—see how they reach out with their arms!—and some of them, like the banyan tree with its travelling roots, manage to get quite far!”
― Ruskin Bond, The Room of Many Colours: A Treasury of Stories for Children

“Ranji had a one-rupee coin. He'd had it since morning, and now it was afternoon - and that was far too long to keep a rupee. It was time he spend the money, or some of it, or most of it.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Room of Many Colours: A Treasury of Stories for Children

“would readily”
― Ruskin Bond, The Room of Many Colours: A Treasury of Stories for Children

“Grandfather was about sixty, a lean active man who still rode his bicycle at great speed.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Room of Many Colours: A Treasury of Stories for Children

“could they get to the river in time?”
― Ruskin Bond, The Room of Many Colours: A Treasury of Stories for Children