Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again. (Kiran Desai)

Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again.

Kiran Desai

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