“ THE DOORYARD OF NAIROBI falls into the Athi Plains. One night I stood there and watched an aeroplane invade the stronghold of the stars. It flew high; it blotted some of them out; it trembled their fl… Beryl Markham
“ No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade, Beryl Markham
“ Atop their gleaming backs the jockeys look like gaudy baubles, secured with strings. They bob up and down, they rise, lean forward, then settle again. Beryl Markham
“ There were occasions when Denys, like all men whose minds have encompassed among other things the foibles of their species, experienced misanthropic moments; he could despair of men, but find poetry i… Beryl Markham
“ The wind in the wires is like the tearing of soft silk under the blended drone of engine and propeller. Beryl Markham
“ Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it. Beryl Markham
“ I had never realized before how quickly men deteriorate without razors and clean shirts. They are like potted plants that go to weed unless they are pruned and tended daily. Beryl Markham
“ I am incapable of a profound remark on the workings of Destiny. It seems to get up early and go to bed very late, and it acts most generously toward the people who nudge it off the road whenever they… Beryl Markham
“ But, for a little while, this is the place for us -- a good place too--a place of good omen, a place of beginning things--and of ending things I never thought would end. Beryl Markham
“ If I were, even now, without either a dog or a horse in my keeping, I should feel I had lost contact with the earth. Beryl Markham
“ Hardly Africa. Not a stone has a familiar cast; the sky and the earth meet like strangers, and the touch of the sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other thing… Beryl Markham
“ You could expect many things of God at night when the campfire burned before the tents. You could look through and beyond the veils of scarlet and see shadows of the world as God first made it and hea… Beryl Markham
“ Many German flyers, having a superstition that to wish good luck brings bad luck, will see a fellow pilot off with the cheering remark, ‘Farewell — but I hope you break your arms and legs! Beryl Markham
“ I had never realized before how quickly men deteriorate without razors and clean shirts. They are like potted plants that go to weed unless they are pruned and tended daily. A single day's growth bear… Beryl Markham
“ A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take. Beryl Markham
