African Trilogy Quotes

“The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable feeling that I have found what I was searching for without ever having discovered what it was.”
― Peter Matthiessen, African Trilogy: The Tree Where Man Was Born / African Silences / Sand Rivers

“But the longing for Africa, once contracted, is an incurable condition which, like malaria, recurs again and again.”
― Peter Matthiessen, An African Trilogy: "Sand Rivers", "Tree Where Man Was Born", "African Silences"