Out of Africa Quotes

Whenever you walk amidst the Kikuyu shambas, the first thing that will catch your eye is the hind part of a little old woman raking in her soil, like a picture of an ostrich which buries her head i...

I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. (1.1.1)

The tropical night has the companionability of a Roman Catholic Cathedral compared to the Protestant Churches of the North, which let you in on business only. (2.1.3)

There was no white Police Officer present when we came, and while they sent for him we waited outside in the car. (2.1.32)

The hills from the farm changed their character many times in the course of the day, and sometimes looked quite close, and at other times very far away. In the evening, when it was getting dark, it...

Rarely, rarely, have I met such a wild creature, a human being who was so utterly isolated from the world, and, by a sort of firm deadly resignation, completely closed to all surrounding life. (1.2...

The geographical position, and the height of the land combined to create a landscape that had not its like in all the world. (1.1.2)

These little boys, who wandered about on the farm in the company of their fathers' herds of goats and sheep, looking up grazing for them, did in a way form a link between the life of my civilized h...