No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.

I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women!

It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.

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 meet.

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

Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.