“A good bricklayer can lay his last brick of the day, point up, wash up, turn his back on his day’s work, and every single one of the joints between the bricks will be exactly 15mm. Why? Because he’s done it so many times, that’s why. It’s repetitive. It’s probably the same for a good hairdresser, a mechanic, a musician, a prostitute and I’m sure Masai Warriors hunting lions in the heart of the Masai Mara.” ConstructionProstitutionProstitutesMasaiBricklayerTradesmanConstruction WorkingConstruction Skills Book:Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“There is no doubt in my mind and I know in my time, there will be a Canadian basketball player playing for Toronto Raptors, 100%” KnowsMindDoubtPlayerBasketballMy TimeNo DoubtBasketball PlayerTorontoMasaiRaptors Author:Masai Ujiri
“But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such singular rhythm that no outsider, unless steeped from childhood in its endless, even beat, can ever hope to experience it, except only as a bystander might experience a Masai war dance knowing nothing of its music nor the meaning of its steps.” WarSoulMightLife IsStepsKnowingChildhoodIntegrityBeatsEndlessRhythmOutsidersPulseInexorableBystandersKnowing NothingMasai Book:West with the Night Source: West with the Night
“Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.” SaidHouseFeetMountainHighestWesternSeekingSnowCoveredFrozenSummitLeopardsHouse Of GodKilimanjaroMasai Author:Ernest Hemingway
“The people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I actually saw a man in a cowboy hat standing there reading the Gettysburg Address next to a Hasidic Jew. I wouldn’t have been surprised if they had linked arms with a woman in a burka and a Masai warrior, to belt out ‘It’s a Small World After All,’ flanked by a chorus line of nuns and field-tripping, rainbow-skinned schoolchildren” PeopleIfsMenWorldLooksHas BeensReadingNextLinesDemocracySawsFieldsArmsStandingJewWarriorHatsAddressesOne TimeDiverseRainbowCowboyLinkedBeltsMemorialNunChorusAdvertisementsStanding ThereTrippingGettysburgSmall WorldGettysburg AddressCowboy HatMasaiChorus LineLincoln Memorial Author:Sarah Vowell
“A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago.” YearsPresidentTechnologyMiddleYears AgoWarriorMobileKenyaCellphonePresident ReaganMasai Author:Peter Diamandis
“I very much like Kenya. It's hard to beat the Masai Mara and the idea of ballooning across it. I have a great time at Lewa. There's more rhinos than you'll find anywhere. A great part for the children is you can ride horses with the giraffes and the zebra.” ChildrenIdeasHardBeatsHorseGreat TimesKenyaGiraffeZebrasRhinosMasai Author:Mark Burnett
“We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.” SickWoundedClinicMasai Author:Louis Leakey
“I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection.” WorldBookFormCultureResearchStartingPassionateCollectionsTribesTouristsStarting PointTravel The WorldMasai Author:John Galliano
“I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.” WayYearsTwoOrderStudyWifeAirInformationHotMy WifeFinanceTwo YearsCaptureLionsPilotsReservesTouristsBalloonsTaking PicturesHot AirAir BalloonsHot Air BalloonsMasai Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand