Desolation Quote by Beryl Markham

“The town does not exist except where one black-haired tree slips up like a drowned woman into the hot sky.”

— Anne Sexton

“The gaping trunk looked like the mouth of a village idiot who was explaining that he didn't know anything about anything.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the huts. Although nothing has come…

— Alan Paton

“It's a strange city... filled with things that are not obvious.”

— A.M. Homes

“I hadn't realized what a transformation had taken place while I had been in Uganda, the spiritual richness I had experienced in material poverty…

— Katie J. Davis

“Tanzania it is the place where Prosperity is Possible, but it is the nature of her People which makes some things Impossible.”

— Asherry Magalla

“The food was what you might expect to find on Air Uganda tourist class:”

— Anthony Bourdain

“This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.”

— Donald Barthelme

“The river of my village doesn’t make you think about anything. When you’re at its bank you’re only at its bank.”

— Alberto Caeiro

“There wasn't a human being for several kilometers around, not a news-stand, not a shop, not a café, not a school. Not a cat,…

— Jean-Philippe Toussaint

“about the plant going up in a small town like this?”

— Joe Hart

“(This place) presumed to be a town then, but was hardly more than a word under a tin roof.”

— Beryl Markham