"Aglow with the plenipotent..." p. 238
"But the farmer holds back his heart and dares not trust to the generosity of nature, he listens..." p. 283
"Cuckoo of the Clock sang out the hours arrogantly over the rows, then it was itself sold, and flew off." p. 372
"...Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road."
Famous first line: "I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills." p.3 Out of Africa
Gambol ˈɡambəl/ verb gerund or present participle: gambolling : run or jump about playfully.
"Here I am, where I ought to be." p. 4
Isak Dinesen (her given name was Karen) wrote this book in 1937
"...Joyously jumping up and down, and gambolling as they run, and swinging their small pale torches merrily. The woods are filled with a wild frolicsome life, and it is all perfectly silent." p. 259
Karen Blixen went to Kenya in 1912
Logo on the spine and end pages of this book
"... meditating upon the joys of farm life." ~ p. 214
Ngong Hills, Kenya, East Africa
P.B. Shelley quote: "once in--
How the delighted spirit pants for joy!"
Quote that reminds me of my hometown: "It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation." p. 11
"Roads of Life" story/drawing - p. 259
Salt water quote is how I became aware of Isak Dinesen from Amy Lewis in ENG 358 Fall 2006
"To be lonely is a state of mind, something completely other than physical solitude; when modern authors rant about the soul's intolerable loneliness, it is only proof of their own intolerable emptiness." ~ Out of Africa
"Unconditional truthfulness which outside of him I have only met in idiots." p. 362
"...Vigour...Vital assurance and lightness of heart." p. 4
When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them." ~ Out of Africa, 1937
When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them." ~ Out of Africa, 1937
"...out of the normal course of human existence, into a maelstrom where I ought never to have been..." p. 379
"You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future." ~ Isak Dinesen
Zen -Mama image and quote seem a go way to end this one: 
AMAZING :)
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