You can't save the rhinos and you can't preserve a culture. I'm very pessimistic. Once it's gone, it's over.

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked working for others and they seemed to resent taking orders. On the whole, directors were treated absurdly well, and workers badly, and most industries were weakened by class suspicion and false economies and cynicism. But the same qualities that made English people seem stubborn and secretive made them, face to face, reliable and true to their word. I thought: The English do small things well and big things badly.

Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.

I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.

... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

There's a lot of sensuality that I associate with travel. And that's romance.