Beryl Markham Quotes About Dignity

Quotes about: Dignity

• 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. It is when we presume to intimacy, having been granted only tolerance, that the harsh stick fall across our impudent knuckles and we rub the pain, staring upward, startled by our ignorance.

  Beryl Markham

  Nature, Pain, Fall

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

• No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.

  Beryl Markham

  Work, Dignity, Achieve

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.308, Open Road Media

• No human pursuit achieves dignity unless it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade, you see that the other things - the experiments, the irrelevant vocations, the vanities you used to hold - were false to you.

  Beryl Markham

  Loneliness, Vanity, Tools

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