Words matter. These are the best Robyn Davidson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War.
The romantic view would be that nomads are wonderful people, better than us; they care about the environment.
I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film.
I’m not one of those true writers who can’t bear not to be writing. Yet it’s one of the most important things in my life.
I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.
I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that’s becoming a very precious and rare commodity.
When I was young, I thought I wouldn’t be a good mother. Now I think I would be, but I’m too long in the tooth.
The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.
That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn’t make much sense in the post-colonial world.
I don’t want to be bored; I don’t want to be with someone I don’t respect.
I think people are frightened by different things, so I don’t see myself as particularly courageous.
At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs.
As you get older, you do just get tired.
The agricultural revolution transformed the earth and changed the fate of humanity. It produced an entirely new mode of subsistence, which remains the foundation of the global economy to this day.
You can trick yourself into doing things by doing it one step at a time and never letting yourself see the overall picture.
Camels are wonderful animals. Witty, intelligent and sensitive.
I just don’t see myself as a travel writer. I can’t. I don’t.
Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we’re not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there – you just can’t do it anymore.
You really can expand the boundaries of your life and do risky things and prove yourself by doing them.
Much of the time I’m an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer’s sensibility.
The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city.
Never, never have a famous partner. It’s too complicated.
By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.
In 10000 BC, all human beings were hunter-gatherers; by 1500 AD, 1 percent were hunter-gatherers. Less than .001 percent of people are hunter-gatherers today.
If you think of all the enduring stories in the world, they’re of journeys. Whether it’s ‘Don Quixote’ or ‘Ulysses,’ there’s always this sense of a quest – of a person going away to be tested, and coming back.
