"The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, lik…"

"I turned to the animal world from the world of men; my heart was heavy with the tragedy of the night."

"I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills."

"Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up…"

"I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation, I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirl…"

"ls when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when…"

"A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real frien…"

"The yeast was out of the bread of the land. A presence of gracefulness, gaiety and freedom, an electric power-factor …"

"Love the pride of the conquered nations, and leave them to honor their father and their mother."

"It seems to you, as you read the case through, a strange, a humiliating fact that the Europeans should not, in Africa…"