The flamingoes are the most delicately colored of all the African birds, pink and red like a flying twig of an oleander… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
If there were one more thing I could do, it would be to go on safari once again. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I had seen a herd of Buffalo, one hundred and twenty-nine of them, come out of the morning mist under a copper… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I arrived at the conviction that we should, more easily and more thoroughly than we now do or ever have done, understand… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
God made the world, My Lord, and looked at it, and saw that it was good. Yes. But what if the world… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into a likeness,… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
When we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear. But we… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose Native land you take. It is their past as well,… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
There was a place in the Hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve, that I myself at the time when I thought… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
