If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock, she tilts five thousand feet of strata on end; our skies are higher and more intensely blue; our waves larger than others; our rivers fiercer. There is nothing measured, small nor petty in South Africa.
ATTRIBUTION:
Olive Schreiner (1855–1920), South African writer, feminist. Thoughts on South Africa, ch. 1 (1892).
