all the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it..

A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his….

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down..

It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous th….

Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer's paradise, a hunter's Valhalla, an escapist's Utopia. It is what you ….

But, for a little while, this is the place for us -- a good place too--a place of good omen, a place of beginning things--and of ending things I neve….

Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he w….

A map in the hands of a pilot is a testimony of a man's faith in other men; it is a symbol of confidence and trust. It is not like a printed page tha….

Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have….

I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains - the drab and dowdy digger in the ea….

Conformation ... but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere - in men, in horses, and in women..

For all professional pilots there exists a kind of guild, without charter and without by-laws. it demands no requirements for inclusion save an under….

In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires - rejecting them one by one an….

That's what makes death so hard--unsatisfied curiosity.

the sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things..

There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it….

There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa..

Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it..

We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may ….

I look at my yesterdays for months past, and find them as good a lot of yesterdays as anybody might want. I sit there in the firelight and see them a….

I have a trunk containing continents..