Nobody has ever been able to define Jazz satisfactorily. This is probably because anyone who was capable of doing so never really wanted to, knowing how much you would have to leave out of the definition. — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
One immense old lady has a family of lively young crocodiles running over her, evidently playing like a lot of kittens. The heavy musky… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
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 the so-called temperate zone, or you may squat in a canoe on an equatorial river, with the surrounding atmosphere forty-five… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share
I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible. — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
Ambas and Bobia Islands are perfect gems of beauty. Mondoleh I cannot say I admire. It always looks to me exactly like one of… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
If you see a thing that looks like a cross between a flying lobster and the figure of Abraxas on a Gnostic gem, do… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever been able to define Jazz satisfactorily. This is probably because anyone who was capable of doing so never really wanted to,… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
[Responding to repeated questions about traveling in Africa without a husband:] I am looking for him. — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with me. — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
the African leopard is an audacious animal, although it is ungrateful of me to say a word against him, after the way he has… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
It is a generally received opinion that there are too many books in the world already. I cannot, however, subscribe to any Institution that… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
the grim, grand African forests are like a great library, in which, so far, I can do little more than look at the pictures,… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
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