"The Conservationist" Quotes
A wealthy South African businessman's life is upended when he becomes obsessed with a piece of land in Nadine Gordimer's "The Conservationist."
fiction | 267 pages | Published in 1974
Quotes
The world was a place where things happened, they didn't just happen to one person.
I am not only responsible for the world, but the world is responsible for me.
His own life, and the lives of others, were no more than the grass on the veld.
The land is not yours. You belong to the land.
It was possible to be hypnotized by the power of your own will.
For every man who wants to escape from himself there are two who want to escape from the world.
The greatest gift you can give your enemy is to show him he's not your enemy.
The wind cried like a woman in childbirth.
There's nothing like a cold beer to cool down the fires of frustration.
He was used to the feeling of being a stranger, the feeling of being observed.
