"Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road."

"If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?"

~Out of Africa

One of my favorite things about Howl's Moving Castle is that Howl's present to Sophie is a field full of flowers, a breathtaking view, a place she can go whenever she needs to. And my favorite thing about Out of Africa is the present Denys gives to Karen-- the plane ride over breathtaking sights, a view of the world as God sees it, an experience she will never forget. Let me meet a man who will give me such presents.