To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
[Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“It is amazing what a lot of insect life goes on under your nose when you have got it an inch from… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Roots of the weed sucked first life from the genesis of earth and hold the essence of it still. Always the weed… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not... I am the earth in the palm of… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“Elephant, beyond the fact that their size and conformation are aesthetically more suited to the treading of this earth than our angular… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“(Quoting her friend Tom Black on an amateur hunter's injury:) "Lion, rifles -- and stupidity.” — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“The only disadvantage in surviving a dangerous experience lies in the fact that your story of it tends to be anticlimactic. You can never… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“All this, and discontent too! Otherwise, why am I sitting here dreaming of England? Why am I gazing at this campfire like a lost… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of a craft,… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought. — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“From the time I arrived in British East Africa at the indifferent age of four and went through the barefoot stage of early youth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
But, for a little while, this is the place for us -- a good place too--a place of good omen, a place of beginning… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
![“[Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in another, while human beings, on the other hand, drew from Mr. Darwin's lottery of evolution both the winning ticket and the stub to match it. This, I…” quote by Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d26/beryl-markham-6709_adaptable_elephants-are-less-agile-and-physically_1121802.jpg)
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