I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it.

Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesterdays are burried deep-leave it anyway except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can.

[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.

I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it.

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

A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.