Has African been your dream destination? or rather wondered how you can get inspired to love Africa more? We have listed below some of the best African safari quotes that we believe will inspire you to visit Africa.
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“If I have ever seen magic, it has been in Africa.” –
By John Hemmingway
“If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the markmanship, a camera would do just as well.”
By Jonathan Safran Foer
“There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne — bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.”
Karen Blixen, “Out of Africa” author
“He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.”
Randolph Bourne
“Africa changes you forever, like nowhere on earth. Once you have been there, you will never be the same. But how do you begin to describe its magic to someone who has never felt it? How can you explain the fascination of this vast, dusty continent, whose oldest roads are elephant paths? Could it be because Africa is the place of all our beginnings, the cradle of mankind, where our species first stood upright on the savannahs of long ago?”
Brian Jackman
“I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.“
Bai Ling
“He could tell by the way the animals walked that they were keeping time to some kind of music. Maybe it was the song their hearts that they walked to”
Laura Adams Armer
“Here I am where I belong”
Karen Blixen, “Out of Africa” author
“Africa – You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the Hand of God. You watch the slope lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at the tripod of a giraffe bent to water. In Africa, there are iridescent blues on the wings of birds that you do not see anywhere else in nature. In Africa, in the midday heart, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you feel primordial, rocked in the cradle of the world.”
Jodi Picoult (American author)
“I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke up that I was not happy.”
Ernest Hemingway (American author and journalist)
“Everything in Africa bites, but the safari bug is worst of all.”
Brian Jackman (British journalist and author, best known for his interest in wildlife and wild places – especially Africa)
“For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by ‘Africa,’ by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony.”
Henry Louis Gates (American literary critic)
“One cannot resist the lure of Africa.”
Rudyard Kipling (English writer)
“There is a language going on out there – the language of the wild. Roars, snorts, trumpets, squeals, whoops and chirps have meaning derived over eons of expression…we have yet to become fluent in the language – and music – of the wild.”
Boyd Norton (American wildlife photographer, from Serengeti: The Eternal Beginning)
“They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end.”
Robert R. McCammon (American novelist)
“People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.”
David Attenborough (English broadcaster and natural historian)
“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.”
Bill Bryson (American-British author of books on travel)
“I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You’re my human Africa. I love your smell as I love these smells. I love your dark bush as I love the bush here, you change with the light as this place does, so that one all the time is loving something different and yet the same. I want to spill myself out into you as I want to die here.”
Graham Greene (English writer and journalist)
“It was wildest, untouched Africa, and it was magic.”
Jane Goodall (English primatologist and anthropologist)
“If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?”
Karen Blixen (Danish author best known for “Out of Africa”, her account of living in Kenya)
“The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification, for the sake of convenience, can we say ‘Africa’. In reality, except as a geographical appellation, Africa does not exist.”
Ryszard Kapuściński (Polish journalist, photographer, poet and author)
“For magnificence, for variety of form and color, for profusion of brilliant life — bird, insect, reptile, beast — for vast scale — Uganda is truly the ‘Pearl of Africa’.”
Winston Churchill (Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)
