The great vault over our heads was gradually filled with clarity like a glass with wine. - Karen Blixen

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 have a feeling that wherever I may be in the future, I will be wondering whether there is rain at Ngong.

Come now,' I said to him, 'and let us go and risk our lives unnecessarily. For if they have got any value at all it is this that they have got none. Frei lebt wer sterben kann.