“We must take things as they are. Without conventional sentimentality, we must greet the light and justly expose pernicious darkness.   ---   We must carefully discriminate between prejudice and superstition and the hidden symbols of ancient knowledge, greeting all who aspire toward creation and construction and deploring the barbaric destruction of the treasures of nature and the spirit.  ---  The magic and intangible ability of art to persuade comes only by the continuous accumulation of real impressions.”

       “Heart of Asia” Memoirs From The Himalayas  by Nicholas Roerich    To continue click here.