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Out of Africa
by Isak Dinesen
"Everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequalled nobility."
"The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it."
"The air in Africa is more significant in the landscape than in Europe, it is filled with loomings and mirages, and is in a way the real stage of activities. In the heat of the midday the air oscillates and vibrates like the string of a violin, lifts up long layers of grass-land with thorn-trees and hills on it, and creates vast silvery expanses of water in the dry grass."
"'Oh no,' said the moon, 'time means very little to me.'"
Such a beautiful recollection of Karen Blixen and her time living in Kenya on her coffee farm in the Ngong Hills in the early 1900s. Stunning, filled with intensity, independence, and rigor. It is impressive that she was able to manage a whole farm, relations with the Masai, acting as a doctor for the area, and maintaining many friendships all by herself with the support of her group of loyal natives. She is an extraordinary woman, an excellent writer, and someone to look up to.
This will be a book to add to my library, to give me inspiration, guidance, and remind me of the love I have for coffee and Africa. Cannot believe she spent seventeen years in Kenya, so many struggles and touching moments, she learned the real way to live, outside of the city, in the rural lands of East Africa. Seeing nature, wildlife, reading, feeling the sun, seeing the grass, harvesting the coffee. Ah!
"The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it."
"The air in Africa is more significant in the landscape than in Europe, it is filled with loomings and mirages, and is in a way the real stage of activities. In the heat of the midday the air oscillates and vibrates like the string of a violin, lifts up long layers of grass-land with thorn-trees and hills on it, and creates vast silvery expanses of water in the dry grass."
"'Oh no,' said the moon, 'time means very little to me.'"
Such a beautiful recollection of Karen Blixen and her time living in Kenya on her coffee farm in the Ngong Hills in the early 1900s. Stunning, filled with intensity, independence, and rigor. It is impressive that she was able to manage a whole farm, relations with the Masai, acting as a doctor for the area, and maintaining many friendships all by herself with the support of her group of loyal natives. She is an extraordinary woman, an excellent writer, and someone to look up to.
This will be a book to add to my library, to give me inspiration, guidance, and remind me of the love I have for coffee and Africa. Cannot believe she spent seventeen years in Kenya, so many struggles and touching moments, she learned the real way to live, outside of the city, in the rural lands of East Africa. Seeing nature, wildlife, reading, feeling the sun, seeing the grass, harvesting the coffee. Ah!