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Quotes from Flamingo Feather — Laurens van der Post

1906–1996 South Africa

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Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will fight no-love every inch of the way.

Flamingo Feather (1955)

Africa has always walked in my mind proudly upright, an African giant among the other continents, toes well dug into the final ocean of one hemisphere, rising to its full height in the graying skies of the other; head and shoulders broad, square and enduring, making light of the bagful of blue Mediterranean slung over its back as it marches patiently through time.

Flamingo Feather (1955)

The buffalo's powerful head darkening the yellow grass, like the lion's imperative roar and the elephant's long, somnambulistic stride, has more of the quintessential Africa in it for me than any other manifestation of all the scores of animals that I know and love.

Flamingo Feather (1955)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Laurens van der Post (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.