Chapter 19
After that, the little prince climbed a high mountain. The
only mountains he had ever known were the three volcanoes,
which came up to his knees. And he used the extinct volcano as
a footstool.“From a mountain as high as this one,”he said to
himself,“I shall be able to see the whole planet at one glance,
and all the people..”
But he saw nothing, save peaks of rock that were
sharpened like needles.
“Good morning," he said courteously.
“Good morning- Good morning一Good morning,'
answered the echo.
“Who are you?" said the little prince.
“Who are you Who are you Who are you?"" answered
the echo.
“Be my friends. I am all alone," he said.
“I am all alone all alone -all alone," answered the echo.
“What a queer planet!" he thought.“It is
altogether dry,and altogether pointed, and altogether harsh and forbidding,
And the people have no imagination. They repeat whatever
One says to them.. On my planet I had a flower; she always was the
first to speak...'.