Occupation: Author Birth: October 26, 1902 Death: August 3, 1986
To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or….
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you ne….
A life has to move or it stagnates. Even this life, I think. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday..
There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is diffe….
Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands that guide it; the ship would rat….
You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself..
there are many Africas..
Roots of the weed sucked first life from the genesis of earth and hold the essence of it still. Always the weed returns; the cultured plant retreats….
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the un….
Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?.
If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work..
Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice.
There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing.
The world grows bigger as the light leaves it. There are no boundaries and no landmarks. The trees and the rocks and the anthills begin to disappear,….
What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorabl….
But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such singular rhythm that no outsider, unless steeped….
In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned..
What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorab….
Life had a different shape; it had new branches and some of the old branches were dead..
The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all..
[Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in a….