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
I have been trying for a long time to understand God. Now I have made friends with him. To love him truly… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky,… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Where a pack of monkeys had traveled over the road, the smell of them lingered for a long time in the air,… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as… — 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
