“ From the time I arrived in British East Africa at the indifferent age of four and went through the barefoot stage of early youth hunting wild pig with the Nandi, later training racehorses for a living… Beryl Markham
“ I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Nev… Beryl Markham
“ None of the characters in (the story) were distinguished ones -- not even the lion.He was an old lion, prepared from birth to lose his life rather than to leave it. But he had the dignity of all free… Beryl Markham
“ Quoting her friend Tom Black on an amateur hunter's injury:)Lion, rifles -- and stupidity. Beryl Markham
“ This place) presumed to be a town then, but was hardly more than a word under a tin roof. Beryl Markham
“ I suppose if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and men, in their eternal impudence, would hunt mastodon as they now hunt elephant. Impudenc… Beryl Markham
“ This town) doesn't look like anything; it isn't anything. Its five tin-roofed huts cling to the skinny tracks of the Uganda Railway like parasites on a vine. Beryl Markham
“ Still, not to be English is hardly regarded as a fatal deficiency even by the English, though grave enough to warrant sympathy. Beryl Markham
“ Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands that guide it; the ship would rather hunt the wind than lay her nose to the horizon… Beryl Markham
“ There 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… Beryl Markham
“ To venture ... close (to a lion) on foot ... would mean the sudden shattering of any kindly belief that the similarity of the lion and the pussy cat goes much beyond their whiskers. But then, since me… Beryl Markham
“ On WWI:)A man of importance had been shot at a place I could not pronounce in Swahili or in English, and, because of this shooting, whole countries were at war. It seemed a laborious method of retribu… Beryl Markham
“ It seemed that the printers of the African maps had a slightly malicious habit of including, in large letters, the names of towns, junctions, and villages which, while most of them did exist in fact,… Beryl Markham
“ Somebody with a flair for small cynicism once said, 'We live and do not learn.' But I have learned some things.I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where… Beryl Markham
“ He knows that there will be days ahead, long, tedious days which have no real beginning or ending, but which run together into night and out of it without changing color, or sound, or meaning. He will… Beryl Markham
“ There's an old adage, he said, translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die. Beryl Markham
“ It was ... disconcerting to examine your charts before a proposed flight only to find that in many cases the bulk of the terrain over which you had to fly was bluntly marked: 'UNSURVEYED.'It was as if… Beryl Markham
