bamboo-jungle

Updated: May 15, 2025

We were able to breathe freely now; we could enjoy the great tapering deodars that rose in ranks on the hillsides, the snow-clad needles of ramping rock that bounded the view to north and south, the feathery bamboo-jungle that fringed and half-obscured the mountain torrent, whose cool music alas, fallaciously cool was borne to us through the dense screen of waving foliage.

Grant Allen - Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose