“Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.”
“Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate--unless one attempts to make himself believe that the wilderness is after all itself the promised land”
“Young" and "Poor" sounded so promising, the way my mother always told the story. Temporary conditions: poignant "befores" that existed only to contrast with the triumphant "afters.”
“We can never get to the Promised Land, for if we did, it would not longer be the Promised Land.”
“We do not pass through the same door twiceOr return to the door through which we did not pass”
“Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti; it is the land of our youth.”