

“Still, we often talked on the farm of the Safaris that we had been on. Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them. You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain, like the features of a friend.”
― Out of Africa
― Out of Africa

“I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirled away with the dusk on the farm-roads, or the smoke on the plain. I begun in the evenings to write stories, fairy-tales, and romances, that would take my mind a long way off, to other countries and times.”
― Out of Africa
― Out of Africa

“The views were immensely wide. Everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequealled nobility.”
― Out of Africa
― Out of Africa

“In a world of fools, I was, I think, to him one of the greater fools.”
― Out of Africa
― Out of Africa

“Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.”
― Out of Africa
― Out of Africa
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