[Game Warden]

"Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been , what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal , needs to be protected from people."

Susan Sontag - American Writer, Activist and Critic, 1933-2004

[Game Warden]

"Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water."

W. C. Fields (American Comic and Actor, 1880-1946)

[Jude]

"Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. "

Miriam Beard Author 1876 - 1958

[Jude]

"Everything in Africa bites, but the safari bug is worst of all.”

Brian Jackman (2004 Travel Writer of Year )

[Jochen]

OK, that last one is as good as they come!

Don't know any safari-related quotes, but I like the African saying "there's nothing as expensive as a chicken received for free". I use that a lot, actually...

[Skelm]

The sign at Mana Pools:

Don't leave anything but your footprints
Don't take anything but your memory

That is the way it should be.

[Atravelynn]

Said to me by the guy sitting next to me on the plane who was returning home to Uganda after a lengthy stay in Europe: "I am happy to be returning to a little bit of sun, a little bit of dust, a little bit of smiles."

[madaboutcheetah]

Hi Lynn,

Your avatar picture .... is it from the Selinda boundary by any chance?

Sorry to hijack the quotes thread..... always, love a good cheetah moment!!!

[Atravelynn]

MadAboutCheetah, this one can be your quote.."Always love a good cheetah moment." It fits you perfectly.

The answer to your question is yes.

[madaboutcheetah]

"always love a good cheetah moment" ////// thanks, Lynn ...........

Good to see our mutual friend from the Kwando/selinda boundary!!!

Cheers
Hari

[dikdik]

"If it weren't for mankind you wouldnt be here"

[Kavey]

I've been collecting these for years:

"The most hazardous part of our expedition to Africa was crossing Piccadilly Circus."
Joseph Thomson



"I believe there is no sickness of the heart too great it cannot be cured by a dose of Africa. Families must go there to learn why they belong together on this earth, adolescents to discover humility, lovers to plumb old but untried wells of passion, honeymooners to seal marriages with a shared sense of bafflement, those shopworn with life to find a tonic for futility, the aged to recognize a symmetry to twilight.
I know this all sounds a bit much, but if I have ever seen magic, it has been in Africa."
John Hemingway, African Journeys



"Everything in Africa bites, but the safari bug is worst of all."
Brian Jackman



"For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place."
Maya Angelou



"I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself."
Nelson Mandela



"The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth."
Mary McLeod Bethune



"The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it."
George Kimble



"I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses."
Nelson Mandela



"In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia."
Charles Lindbergh



"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."
D. H. Lawrence


"Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself."
James Anthony Froude



"[Botswana] was one intricate labyrinth of swamp, with many small streams moving outward from the river into the sandy wastes of the southwest. Where all this water goes is a mystery."
Aurel Schultz



There is always something new out of Africa.
Pliny the Elder (23 AD - 79 AD)



What is Africa to me:
Copper sun or scarlet sea,
Jungle star or jungle track,
Strong bronzed men, or regal black
Women from whose loins I sprang
When the birds of Eden sang?
Countee Cullen



Are you there, Africa with the bulging chest and oblong thigh? Sulking Africa, wrought of iron, in the fire, Africa of the millions of royal slaves, deported Africa, drifting continent, are you there? Slowly you vanish, you withdraw into the past, into the tales of castaways, colonial museums, the works of scholars.
Jean Genet



For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya Angelou



South Africa isn't just beautiful, it is achingly beautiful.
Bill Clinton

[Game Warden]

Any new ones?

[twaffle]

There are many wonderful quotes. Most of my favourites come from the pen of Isak Dinesen as she just had a wonderful way with words.
"Give me enough and more than enough. My heart is bared to thee now, and I will not let thee go except thou bless me."

"The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent scent."

"There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows."

And then I have some of my own, all of which were written on our family trip in '05..

This one just for Nyamera …
"Who designed these creatures and then painted them red with drifts of blue ambling down their shoulders and quarters?"

And this I wrote just as we were packing to leave because it was how I felt and still feel. Probably a bit maudlin for some.

"Kenya …
You are every love song ever sung
Every tear drop ever fallen …
You wrapped your arms around my heart
A long, long time ago.
I’ve felt the warmth of your embrace
The smell of you, the taste of you, the sound of you
Enriched, empowered I go home”

I won't include anymore as it is a little self indulgent.