Quote#Nature
The full African moon poured down its light from the blue sky into…
Quote byOlive Schreiner · 1855–1920
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Story of an African Farm (1883), Part 1, Chapter 1, Page 35; The opening of the novel devotes considerable attention to the setting, which will influence the development of the characters and the movement of the plot..
English (original)
The full African moon poured down its light from the blue sky into the wide, lonely plain. The dry, sandy earth, with its coating of stunted ‘karroo’ bushes a few inches high, the low hills that skirted the plain, the milk-bushes with their long, finger-like leaves, all were touched by a weird and almost oppressive beauty as they lay in the white light.”
— Olive Schreiner
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