One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.
Beryl MarkhamAfrica is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice
Beryl MarkhamA lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.
Beryl MarkhamThere 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 different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt.
Beryl Markham