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  • Beryl Markham Quote - We fly, but we have not ‘conquered’ the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand. Download This Image
  • Beryl Markham Quote - We fly, but we have not ‘conquered’ the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand.
  • Beryl Markham Quote - We fly, but we have not ‘conquered’ the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand.
  • Beryl Markham Quote - We fly, but we have not ‘conquered’ the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand.
  • Beryl Markham Quote - We fly, but we have not ‘conquered’ the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand.
  • Beryl Markham Quote - We fly, but we have not ‘conquered’ the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand.
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We fly, but we have not ‘conquered’ the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand.

Beryl Markham

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beryl Markham Quote - There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. Download This Image

    There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work.

    BERYL MARKHAM
  • 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 color 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.

    What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color 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.

    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 - One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.

    One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.

    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 - 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 - We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of a craft, and how a craft can be master of an element. I saw the alchemy of perspective reduce my world, and all my other life, to grains in a cup.

    We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of a craft, and how a craft can be master of an element. I saw the alchemy of perspective reduce my world, and all my other life, to grains in a cup.

    BERYL MARKHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beryl Markham Quote - In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires – rejecting them one by one and severally, because she is too sage and a little bored with the importunity of it all. Download This Image

    In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires – rejecting them one by one and severally, because she is too sage and a little bored with the importunity of it all.

    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 - Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer’s paradise, a hunter’s Valhalla, an escapist’s Utopia. It is what you will, and it withstands all interpretations.

    Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer’s paradise, a hunter’s Valhalla, an escapist’s Utopia. It is what you will, and it withstands all interpretations.

    BERYL MARKHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beryl Markham Quote - To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse. Download This Image

    To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse.

    BERYL MARKHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beryl Markham Quote - The world grows bigger as the light leaves it. There are no boundaries and no landmarks. The trees and the rocks and the anthills begin to disappear, one by one, whisked away under the magical cloak of evening.

    The world grows bigger as the light leaves it. There are no boundaries and no landmarks. The trees and the rocks and the anthills begin to disappear, one by one, whisked away under the magical cloak of evening.

    BERYL MARKHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beryl Markham Quote - But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such singular rhythm that no outsider, unless steeped from childhood in its endless.

    But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such singular rhythm that no outsider, unless steeped from childhood in its endless.

    BERYL MARKHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beryl Markham Quote - Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands that guide it; the ship would rather hunt the wind than lay her nose to the horizon far ahead.

    Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands that guide it; the ship would rather hunt the wind than lay her nose to the horizon far ahead.

    BERYL MARKHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beryl Markham Quote - Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.

    Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.

    BERYL MARKHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beryl Markham Quote - When you have flown halfway across a desert, you experience the desperation of a sleepless man waiting for dawn which only comes when the importance of its coming is lost.

    When you have flown halfway across a desert, you experience the desperation of a sleepless man waiting for dawn which only comes when the importance of its coming is lost.

    BERYL MARKHAM