Petals, Pines and Paws: Exploring the Natural World and Conservation in Ruskin Bond’s Rain in the Mountains and The Book of Nature

Abstract

There is a gentle pain in Ruskin Bond’s writing about how nature’s beauty is changing. Most of his work is inspired by the variety of life that can be found in the beautiful Himalayan hills. According to the author, man gives value and significance based on his own needs and wants, not on the natural world as a whole and how it works. Every piece of writing by Ruskin Bond is a tribute to the beauty of nature and a discovery of something special in the people he meets every day. His readers should definitely pay attention to the way he uses his feelings to study, learn, love and write about people and nature in an objective way. Bond wrote about the many kinds of trees, flowers, and bushes that grow in the hills. He goes into detail about everything from the tiniest insects to the biggest animals like elephants and tigers. The main points of this paper are to talk in depth about the full world of plants and animals that Ruskin Bond wrote about and to look into the different aspects of biodiversity in his writings.