Elspeth Huxley Quotes

Elspeth Joscelin Huxley CBE was an author, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser. She wrote over 40 books, including her best-known lyrical books, The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard, based on her youth in a coffee farm in British Kenya. Her husband, Gervas Huxley, was a grandson of Thomas Huxley and a cousin of Aldous Huxley. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. July 1907 – 10. January 1997
Elspeth Huxley: 1 quote0 likes

Elspeth Huxley Quotes

“How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.”

Elspeth Huxley

Source: The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

Similar authors

Julio Cortázar photo
Julio Cortázar29
Argentinian writer None
Luciano De Crescenzo photo
Luciano De Crescenzo1
Italian writer None
Naguib Mahfouz photo
Naguib Mahfouz7
Egyptian writer None
Frank Herbert photo
Frank Herbert158
American writer None
Stefan Zweig photo
Stefan Zweig106
Austrian writer None
Alessandro Baricco photo
Alessandro Baricco9
Italian writer None
André Breton photo
André Breton70
French writer None
Jorge Amado photo
Jorge Amado4
Brazilian writer None
Eduardo Galeano photo
Eduardo Galeano12
Uruguayan writer None
William Saroyan photo
William Saroyan190
American writer None