Looking for safari quotes? Here’s our choice of the very best quotes about safari from naturalists, authors, film stars, and more made over the years. Some safari quotes are quite general, relating to the overall safari experience and ambiance, whilst some of these quotes are specific to individual species you’ll (hopefully!) see whilst on safari.
Read on below for 30 of the most inspirational safari quotes around:
“If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the markmanship, a camera would do just as well.”
Jonathan Safran Foer
“If there were one more thing I could do, it would be to go on safari once again.”
Karen Blixen, “Out of Africa” author
“There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne — bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.”
Karen Blixen, “Out of Africa” author
“Here I am where I belong”
Karen Blixen, “Out of Africa” author
“He could tell by the way the animals walked that they were keeping time to some kind of music. Maybe it was the song their hearts that they walked to”
Laura Adams Armer
“Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance”
The Lion King
“Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.”
W.C. Fields
“Everything in Africa bites, but the safari bug is worst of all.”
Brian Jackman
“I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke up that I was not happy.”
Ernest Hemmingway
“To witness that calm rhythm of life revives our worn souls and recaptures a feeling of belonging to the natural world. No one can return from the Serengeti unchanged, tawny lions will forever prowl our memory and great herds throng our imagination.”
“Few can sojourn long within the unspoilt wilderness of a game sanctuary, surrounded on all sides by its confiding animals, without absorbing its atmosphere; the Spirit of the Wild is quick to assert supremacy, and no man of any sensibility can resist her.”
James Stevenson-Hamilton
Safari quotes about elephants
“They say an elephant never forgets. What they don’t tell you is, you never forget an elephant.”
Bill Murray
“Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.”
John Donne
“If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people only more so.”
Pierre Corneille
“He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.”
Randolph Bourne
Safari quotes about lions
“Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.”
African proverb
“You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.”
Isak Dinesen
“A lion doesn’t concern itself with the opinion of sheep.”
George R. R. Martin
“The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.”
A. J. Darkholme
“Even a hare, the weakest of animals, may insult a dead lion.”
AESOP
“Until the lion tells his side of the story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”
Zimbabwean proverb
“Lions make leopards time.”
William Shakespeare
“In the jungle, the mighty jungle
The lion sleeps tonight.”
Solomon Lina, “Mbube”
Safari quotes about leopards
“The leopard does not change his spots.”
King James Bible
“Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.“
Roberto Cavalli
“This world without a leopard…I mean, who would want to be here?!“
Diana Vreeland
“I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.“
Bai Ling
“At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.“
Hunter S. Thompson
“A leopard feels at home with leopard.“
George Eliot
Safari quotes about zebras
“Everytime I look at a zebra, I can’t figure out whether it’s black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.”
Jodi Picoult
Want to know why zebras have stripes?
“Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!“
Ogden Nash
“There’s no limit to how much you’ll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.“
Dr Seuss
And that’s your lot for safari quotes. What do you think – any great ones you know that are missing? Please do join in and share your favourite quotes about safaris in the comments section below!
