The Last Savanna Quotes

#1. He loved books, never going to sea without a newly replenished library, compact but of the best.

Herman Melville

#2. I've known Timbaland for a while. We developed a friendship. He always said he would come back for me when he was ready, and he did. We've been rocking and rolling since we got together a couple of years ago. I'm blessed to be under his mentorship, and grateful he's opened so many doors for me.

V. Bozeman

#3. The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event.

Henry Rollins

#4. People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.

Michael J. Fox

#5. Long before the stars died the birds began to sing - cool rippling doves, loud cheery starlings, the long lilting trills of warblers and thrushes.

Mike Bond

#6. I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning.

Liam Neeson

#7. There is no such thing as reincarnation, but only similar incarnation.

Abhijit Naskar

#8. ...He sat back on his heels and watched the stars one by one cut their way through onrushing darkness, till all was reversed, day was night, and the blackness glittered with all the desert's sands, each a tiny flame beyond the bounds of time.

Mike Bond

#9. The eastern savanna shifted from charcoal to deep purple; to the west a feverish orange moon sank into the Kiambu Hills.

Mike Bond

#10. A hundred thousand welcomes: I could weep,
And I could laugh; I am light and heavy:
Welcome.

William Shakespeare

#11. Faraway a leopard barked that high, dissatisfied deep roar it cuts off so sharply, as if its annoyance is too great to express, can only be appeased.

Mike Bond

#12. The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others.

Norman Angell

#13. But wasn't that progress too, that the elephants were killed off like the mastodon and giant rhino before them, like all other wildlife and wild places? 'We can't stop time,' MacAdam said. 'But you can change the way it goes,' Nehemiah insisted.

Mike Bond

#14. ...the track of the three camels and three pairs of sandals was like an arrow diminishing into infinity across the wavering sand.

Mike Bond

#15. A camel brayed columns from the rondavels; new sunlight struck the savage earth.

Mike Bond

#16. Water was how the desert would bring everyone together. The antelope's daily prayer, weighing the mortal need of water with the mortal danger of obtaining it.

Mike Bond

#17. Inside her head or out in the desert was the same, and the air inside her throat was very dry to keep from crying and her neck sore from forcing herself not to look down, not to look back.

Mike Bond

#18. I have spent hours and hours watching elephants, and to come to understand what emotional creatures they are...it's not just a species facing extinction, it's massive individual suffering.

Mike Bond

#19. Establish a system of rewards and punishments

Sunday Adelaja

#20. Love and work are crucial for human happiness because, when done well, they draw us out of ourselves and into connection with people and projects beyond ourselves. Happiness comes from getting these connections right.

Jonathan Haidt

#21. What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.' Yeah, right Nietzsche. And who does not drive you crazy, can't steal your job and make you act stupid?

Darcy Maguire

#22. Rams wrapped in thermogene beget no lambs.

Aldous Huxley

#23. The breeze across the desert as the light died was so sweet she could almost drink it.

Mike Bond

#24. The immense desert, empty as a bird's wing, inspired him with promise.

Mike Bond

#25. Love is my inner strength and my power.

Debasish Mridha

#26. Already this sun was pouring its wrath into the blue Indian ocean where swordfish and marlin cruised like silver-blue attenuated warheads in their green-gold depths...

Mike Bond