“It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose Native land you take. It is their past… — 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… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“Dr Sass…maintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the back-curtain of the Lord, and… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
There are times of great beauty on a coffee farm. When the plantation flowered in the beginning of the rains, it was… — 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
Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I have a feeling that wherever I may be in the future, I will be wondering whether there is rain at Ngong. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
The real difference between God and human beings is that God cannot stand continence. No sooner has he created a season of… — 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
“We fish rest quietly, on all sides supported, within an element which all the time accurately and unfailingly evens itself out. An… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid… — 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
