Wild Himalaya Quotes

“…against the grey verticality of a cliff a thin strand of water…vanishes into a mist or smoke atomized by the wind”
― Stephen Alter, Wild Himalaya: A Natural History of the Greatest Mountain Range on Earth

“He likes to quote the Sufi poet Rumi: ‘Travel leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller’, an aphorism also attributed to the Moroccan explorer, Ibn Battuta.”
― Stephen Alter, Wild Himalaya: A Natural History of the Greatest Mountain Range on Earth

“In a groundbreaking study published in the journal Nature, Dr Suzanne Simard of the University of British Columbia discovered communication networks in stands of Douglas firs, which she dubbed the ‘Wood Wide Web’, suggesting the connectivity of trees. This research has been popularized by German naturalist Peter Wohlleben in his bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees. He describes how oaks and beeches share information using microscopic fungal filaments, comparing these to fibre-optic Internet cables. ‘One teaspoon of forest soil contains many miles of these “hyphae”. Over centuries a single fungus can cover many square kilometres and network an entire forest. The fungal connections transmit signals from one tree to the next, helping them exchange news about insects, drought, and other dangers.”
― Stephen Alter, Wild Himalaya: A Natural History of the Greatest Mountain Range on Earth