"Nepalese" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... independence. From its northern border Mt. Everest looks down from its most exalted of all earthly summits and sees valley after valley depleted of first one bird and then another. I have seen and lived with Nepalese shepherds who have nothing to do month after month but watch their flocks. In the lofty solitudes time hangs heavy on their hands, and with true oriental patience they weave loop after loop of yak-hair snares, and then set them, ...
— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday |
