A Book of Simple Living: Brief Notes from the Hills

Love opening this book and reading just one page

Feeling the words resonate with your own life reminding us of the beauty around us. His words bring colour to our imagination.

Takes you to the hills and nature again. It helped me feel at peace on rough days and when my mind was racing. There is a philosophical angel in some notes which also is nice.It's literally brief notes, hence if someone doesn't like to read and ponder and hang around on same page for long then, you'll brush through it but may not enjoy since not much continuity.

One of my most favorite book ! Time slows down whenever I pick this book to read. Its a book about small things in life , the kind of things we overlook and never take time to notice. A book which shows how life should flow naturally.

This book is the kind that one can read many times over. A sense of peace prevails over me every time I read a page out of it. Ruskin takes you to the hills, walks you through the woods, or along the creeks and you contemplate nature in a way you most likely haven’t before. Reminds you the beauty of simplicity and contentment. A beautiful work.

Excellent book - especially for those who appreciate nature and living fully! Classic Ruskin writing: grateful, in the moment, epicurean.He captures every beautiful and worthy experience and narrates it masterfully, effortlessly transporting the reader into his magical world of natural beauty and small nothings. Indeed the God of Small Things! ;-)

If you're going to give Ruskin Bond a go, this is a great place to start. Warm and funny inspirational tales of a life mainly lived in the foothills of the Himalayas. Bond is more famous in India, but he tells a great short story and these are feel good and almost self help in their explanations of what has led him to lead a simple, happy contemplative life. Lovely stuff and a nice edition too.

This book is a recipe for happiness. The language is flowing; giving lovely details of the mountains, foliage and nature at its best. It makes good reading and you realise how the small small things in life can give you so much of happiness and contentment only if you look around. I could connect with the author. I love watching the leaves sway in the breeze and I love the chirping of birds, the sound of water flowing and the birds flocking around the bird feeder, mother birds feeding the young ones - where is the time to feel lonely? Lovely read; a must buy book. Worth every penny.

This delightful, gentle book is lovely to meditate with. Read a page or two and reflect... Wherever in the world you live, your world will be just that little bit richer for having made acquaintance with this little gem.

A book that steals your heart with its simplicity and beauty of the feelings shared. Read a paragraph and take a moment to ponder over what read and understood.

“And in the end when all wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”If you easy enough to understand these words, this book will change your mindset towards life around you.You may stand up while reading this book and clap!It will give winds to your mind and bring it back with ooze feeling of inexplicable feeling of happiness.Joy of simple living. Joy of simply loving.