People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of hea….

I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world..

There is a particular hapiness in giving a man whom you like very much, good food that you have cooked yourself..

The flamingoes are the most delicately colored of all the African birds, pink and red like a flying twig of an oleander bush. They have incredibly lo….

It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is any hurry or strain….

We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power..

There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and ….

In the Ngong Forest I have also seen, on a narrow path through thick growth, in the middle of a very hot day, the Giant Forest Hog, a rare person to ….

If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages..

We invent the past and remember the future..

When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music..

Where a pack of monkeys had traveled over the road, the smell of them lingered for a long time in the air, a dry and stale, mousy smell..

Some people have an unconquerable love of riddles. They may have the chance of listening to plain sense, or to such wisdom that explains life; but no….

some travelers are drawn forward by a goal lying before them in the way iron is drawn to the magnet. Others are driven on by a force lying behind the….

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect..

Africa, amongst the continents, will teach it to you: that God and the Devil are one, the majesty coeternal, not two uncreated but one uncreated, and….

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best..

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does..

There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne — bubbling over w….

Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is sal….

I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirled away with the dusk on the farm….