"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 …"

"Every time that I have gone up in an airplane and looking down have realized that I was free of the ground, I have ha…"

"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…"