Out in the Midday Sun Quotes

“For many, hopes that burgeoned with uhuru have gone sour. The bwana has merely changed the colour of his skin, not shared out his possessions. He still drives around in a great big motor car while you trudge or, if you are lucky, pedal on a clapped-out bicycle.”
― Elspeth Huxley, Out in the Midday Sun

“Forests are the mother of streams. They nourish and protect the springs, and if they are destroyed the springs dry up, rivers cease to flow, people and their cattle have to move elsewhere and another bit of Africa is turned into desert. This is going on all the time.”
― Elspeth Huxley, Out in the Midday Sun

“the fact that the end of a successful hunt was the destruction of a beautiful animal had begun to nibble at the roots of my enjoyment.”
― Elspeth Huxley, Out in the Midday Sun