WIST Quotations

Dinesen, Isak -- Out of Africa, Part 1 “Kamante and Lulu,” “The Ngong Farm” (1937)

Dave — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:03:23 +0000

I had seen a herd of Elephant traveling through dense Native forest, where the sunlight is strewn down between the thick creepers in small spots and patches, pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.

Isak Dinesen (1885-1962) Danish writer [pseud. of Karen Christence, Countess Blixen]
Out of Africa, Part 1 “Kamante and Lulu,” “The Ngong Farm” (1937)
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Scalzi, John -- Zoe’s Tale (2008)

Dave — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 01:47:24 +0000

If you ever want to feel like you’re on the verge of total, abject bowel-releasing terror, try making your way a klick or two out of a forest, at night, with the certain feeling you’re being hunted. It makes you feel alive, it really does, but not in a way you want to feel alive.

John Scalzi (b. 1969) American writer
Zoe’s Tale (2008)

Byron, George Gordon, Lord -- Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 4, st. 178 (1818)

Dave — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:11:57 +0000

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 4, st. 178 (1818)
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Milne, A. A. -- House at Pooh Corner, ch. 10 “An Enchanted Place” (1928)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

They walked on, thinking of This and That, and by-and-by they came to an enchanted place on the very top of the Forest called Galleons Lap, which is sixty-something trees in a circle; and Christopher Robin knew it was enchanted because nobody had ever been able to count whether it was sixty-three or sixty-four.

A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
House at Pooh Corner, ch. 10 “An Enchanted Place” (1928)
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