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Out of Africa Quotes Showing 1-30 of 78. “You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.” ― Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa. tags: adventure, africa, life. 266 likes. Like. “Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.” ― Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa. tags: clever, foresight.
“Here I am, where I ought to be.” ― Isak Dinesen, quote from Out of Africa. Copy text. “The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, like tears over a cheek.
Out of Africa, written by Danish author Karen Blixen under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen, is a classic memoir that beautifully captures the author's experiences while living on a coffee plantation in colonial Kenya during the early 20th century.
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. As a landowner, Karen Blixen wielded great power over her tenants, but she respected and admired native Africans. It is more than their land that you take away from the people whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their roots and their identity.
Quotes from Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa. Learn the important quotes in Out of Africa and the chapters they're from, including why they're important and what they mean in the context of the book.
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