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10 African Safari Travel Quotes

• Africa changes you forever, like nowhere on earth. Once you have been there, you will never be the same. But how do you begin to describe its magic to someone who has never felt it? How can you explain the fascination of this vast, dusty continent, whose oldest roads are elephant paths? Could it be because Africa is the place of all our beginnings, the cradle of mankind, where our species first stood upright on the savannahs of long ago?”

  *Brian Jackman

• “If I have ever seen magic, it has been in Africa.”

  *John Hemingway

““It’s really beautiful. It feels like God visits everywhere else but lives in Africa.”

* Will Smith

“In Africa you have space…there is a profound sense of space here, space and sky.”    

* Thabo Mbeki

“One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.”

* Edith Wharton

“Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti; it is the land of our youth.”

* Boyd Norton

“They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end.”

* Robert R. McCammon

“Having travelled to some African countries, I find myself, like so many visitors to Africa before me, intoxicated with the continent. And I am not referring to the animals, as much as I have been enthralled by them during safaris in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Rather I am referring to the African people.”

* Dennis Prager

“Everytime I look at azebra, I can’t figure out whether it’s black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.”

* Jodi Picoult

“All I wanted to do was get back to Africa. We had not left it, yet, but when I would wake in the night I would lie, listening, homesick for it already.”

* Ernest Hemingway