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> [There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a hole inside the arctic circle, or on a Windsor chair by the side of the River Lea in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kingsley/there-is-one-distinctive-charm-about-fishing-its-fascinations-will/)

[Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kingsley/)

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## More by Mary Kingsley

> [One immense old lady has a family of lively young crocodiles running over her, evidently playing like a lot of kittens. The heavy musky…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kingsley/one-immense-old-lady-has-a-family-of-lively-young-crocodiles-running/)

[Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kingsley/)

> [There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a hole inside…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kingsley/there-is-one-distinctive-charm-about-fishing-its-fascinations-will/)

[Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kingsley/)

> [I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kingsley/i-most-carefully-confined-myself-to-facts-and-arranged-those-facts-on/)

[Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kingsley/)

> [Ambas and Bobia Islands are perfect gems of beauty. Mondoleh I cannot say I admire. It always looks to me exactly like one of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kingsley/ambas-and-bobia-islands-are-perfect-gems-of-beauty-mondoleh-i-cannot/)

[Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kingsley/)

> [West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kingsley/west-africa-today-is-just-a-quarry-of-paving-stones-for-hell-and/)

[Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kingsley/)

> [If you see a thing that looks like a cross between a flying lobster and the figure of Abraxas on a Gnostic gem, do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kingsley/if-you-see-a-thing-that-looks-like-a-cross-between-a-flying-lobster/)

[Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kingsley/)

> [Nobody has ever been able to define Jazz satisfactorily. This is probably because anyone who was capable of doing so never really wanted to,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kingsley/nobody-has-ever-been-able-to-define-jazz-satisfactorily-this-is/)

[Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kingsley/)

> [ \[Responding to repeated questions about traveling in Africa without a husband:\] I am looking for him. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kingsley/responding-to-repeated-questions-about-traveling-in-africa-without-a/)

[Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kingsley/)

> [It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kingsley/it-is-my-melancholy-fate-to-like-so-many-people-i-profoundly-disagree/)

[Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kingsley/)

> [the African leopard is an audacious animal, although it is ungrateful of me to say a word against him, after the way he has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kingsley/the-african-leopard-is-an-audacious-animal-although-it-is-ungrateful/)

[Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kingsley/)

> [It is a generally received opinion that there are too many books in the world already. I cannot, however, subscribe to any Institution that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kingsley/it-is-a-generally-received-opinion-that-there-are-too-many-books-in/)

[Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kingsley/)

> [the grim, grand African forests are like a great library, in which, so far, I can do little more than look at the pictures,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kingsley/the-grim-grand-african-forests-are-like-a-great-library-in-which-so/)

[Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kingsley/)

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