The trouble with righting some wrongs is that it makes the remaining ones seem even more unbearable.
A. A. GillRead
You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote expresses a deep appreciation for Africa's raw and untamed beauty, suggesting that it offers an unfiltered view of life.
A. A. Gill reflects on his connection to Africa, indicating that it reveals a more authentic experience of the world unlike any other place. He emphasizes the unique and revealing aspects of the continent that continually pull him back, indicating that understanding Africa is a profound experience that goes beyond mere tourism.
Themes
AfricaNatureBeautyExperienceTravel
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used to inspire travelers at a travel conference.
More from A. A. Gill
All quotes βIf the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.
A. A. GillRead
Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
A. A. GillRead
Being able to afford everything you desire is not, by any means, the worst thing that can happen to you. But, depressingly, and more profoundly, neither is it the best.
A. A. GillRead
America didnβt bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
A. A. GillRead
Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The famous don't actually have to turn up to their own lives at all.
A. A. GillRead
Similar quotes
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
Rachel CarsonRead
When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket. Warmish-cool, with a faint taste like the hot July wind in Cedar trees smells.
William FaulknerRead
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
Ansel AdamsRead
Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb toward it.
Edmund HillaryRead
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Henry David ThoreauRead
The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.
Ansel AdamsRead