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  • Beryl Markham Quote - Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.
  • Beryl Markham Quote - Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.
  • Beryl Markham Quote - Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.
  • Beryl Markham Quote - Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.
  • Beryl Markham Quote - Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.
  • Beryl Markham Quote - Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.
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Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.

Beryl Markham

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beryl Markham Quote - What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker’s rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend.

    What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker’s rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend.

    BERYL MARKHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beryl Markham Quote - Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.

    Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.

    BERYL MARKHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beryl Markham Quote - It is not fickle, but because it has mothered not only men, but races, and cradles not only cities, but civilizations – and seen them die, and seen new ones born again – Africa can be dispassionate, indifferent, warm, or cynical, replete with the weariness of too much wisdom.

    It is not fickle, but because it has mothered not only men, but races, and cradles not only cities, but civilizations – and seen them die, and seen new ones born again – Africa can be dispassionate, indifferent, warm, or cynical, replete with the weariness of too much wisdom.

    BERYL MARKHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beryl Markham Quote - [Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves.

    [Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves.

    BERYL MARKHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beryl Markham Quote - I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the uncertainty and the exhilaration of first-born adventure.

    I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the uncertainty and the exhilaration of first-born adventure.

    BERYL MARKHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beryl Markham Quote - There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city.

    There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city.

    BERYL MARKHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beryl Markham Quote - Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep it company – and so talk goes out through the lips.

    Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep it company – and so talk goes out through the lips.

    BERYL MARKHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beryl Markham Quote - A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.

    A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.

    BERYL MARKHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beryl Markham Quote - For all professional pilots there exists a kind of guild, without charter and without by-laws. it demands no requirements for inclusion save an understanding of the wind, the compass, the rudder, and fair fellowship.

    For all professional pilots there exists a kind of guild, without charter and without by-laws. it demands no requirements for inclusion save an understanding of the wind, the compass, the rudder, and fair fellowship.

    BERYL MARKHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beryl Markham Quote - I have a trunk containing continents.

    I have a trunk containing continents.

    BERYL MARKHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beryl Markham Quote - It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy.

    It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy.

    BERYL MARKHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beryl Markham Quote - I look at my yesterdays for months past, and find them as good a lot of yesterdays as anybody might want. I sit there in the firelight and see them all.

    I look at my yesterdays for months past, and find them as good a lot of yesterdays as anybody might want. I sit there in the firelight and see them all.

    BERYL MARKHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beryl Markham Quote - The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.

    The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.

    BERYL MARKHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beryl Markham Quote - The hours that made them were good, and so were the moments that made the hours. I have had responsibilities and work, dangers and pleasure, good friends, and a world without walls to live in.

    The hours that made them were good, and so were the moments that made the hours. I have had responsibilities and work, dangers and pleasure, good friends, and a world without walls to live in.

    BERYL MARKHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beryl Markham Quote - To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe.

    To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe.

    BERYL MARKHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beryl Markham Quote - I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains – the drab and dowdy digger in the earth.

    I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains – the drab and dowdy digger in the earth.

    BERYL MARKHAM