[quotes] Safari Ants, Baggy Pants and Elephants - Susie Kelly 2017

 

"The emergency was that the people whom this country rightfully belonged now wanted to run it themselves."

"[On trophy hunting:] It is not even as if there is any skill needed, just sufficient money and an adequate gun. It seems such an utterly pointless and negative activity."

"... I was dubious that even if it ever became law it would lead to an equitable distribution of land, as the wealthiest landowners would find ways to circumnavigate the law - easily done by forming a company - and therefore not count as individuals."

"All those who made comments like that had one thing in common, which was that they had never been to Kenya."

"'I am sure that there are a lot of people who have never visited Africa or Kenya. They think Kenya is Africa and Africa is Kenya. Showing your photographs that you took helps them to know exactly what you are talking about."

"The wind,
In it was a scent,
So hard to remember,
So hard to forget,
Memories long forgotten,
A past so vivid,
A stranger so familiar.

I wake up to a dream,
And see the wind,
In it is a scent,
So hard to remember,
So hard to forget,
Africa.
The scent of my childhood."

[quotes] Ishmael - Daniel Quinn 1992

 

"... no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library."

"You, who have had a name from birth and who probably think that even a pet dog is aware of having a name (which is untrue), cannot imagine what a revolution in perception the acquisition of a name produced in me."

"... uttering that which must be said but which must not be heard by anyone."

"'You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.'"

"I was once again having impure thoughts about saving the world."

"The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and the elements. According to your mythology, this is what he was born to do."

"They don't know such a law even exists, but this ignorance affords them no protection from its effects."

"Once you exempt yourself from the law of limited competition, everything in the world except your food and the food of your food becomes an enemy to be exterminated."

"It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee."

"'Whatever I can justify doing is good and whatever I cannot justify doing is evil.'"

"'The Takers accumulate knowledge about what works well for things. The Leavers accumulate knowledge about what works well for people.'"

"They're going to go on treating the world as if it were a piece of human property and they're going to go on conquering it as if it were an adversary. You can't change these things with laws. You must change people's minds."