“Seeing human suffering changes you. It either makes you compassionate or it makes you hard.” — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share Image
“Even doctors — or perhaps especially doctors — need to be touched by something personally to understand the suffering of others. We’ve been taught about the enormous power over life and death that is invested in us; we can be… — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share Image
“Seeing human suffering changes you. It either makes you compassionate or it makes you hard.” — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share
“A Glimpse of Eternal Snows celebrates Nepali wildlife: a smooth grey boulder lifts its head to become a rhinoceros; a langur look-out hysterically grunts… — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share
“Travel experiences are emotionally loaded. Often there is excitement and stimulation. The tingle-factor though comes partly from the fact that we're stressed, just a… — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share
I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit. — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share
GPs are almost the only doctors these days who understand all problems, can see the whole person…spend time with the dying…see things through to… — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share
“Living in the edge - that's what I feel like when I don't know what my bowels are going to do next.” — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share
“On life’s journey, every person met, every place, every new word, language, scent & sound changes the traveller a little: forms who they are… — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share
“We found a smooth inviting boulder under a vast banyan tree, and sat in companionable silence. There unexpectedly, on that rock, I saw the… — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share
The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement. — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share
“Good writers are like magpies, attracted to shiny things and storing away treasures - pieces of dialogue and experience - which pop up from… — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share
Travel is a joy, full of surprises. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster: the risks… — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share
“Even doctors — or perhaps especially doctors — need to be touched by something personally to understand the suffering of others. We’ve been taught… — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share
The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to… — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share
“A traveller with an open mind grows richer with each journey, with each encounter, with each conversation.” — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share
