Robyn Davidson quotes

The two important things that I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision. (Robyn Davidson)

Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes.

Robyn Davidson

It seems to me that the good lord in his infinate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable- hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these was dogs.

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And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them.

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I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.

Robyn Davidson

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.

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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.

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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.

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To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble. It is not safe. I had learnt to use my fears as stepping stones rather than stumbling blocks, and.

Robyn Davidson

The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process.

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I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't. (Robyn Davidson)

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.

Robyn Davidson

Robyn Davidson

Occupation: Australian Writer
Born: September 6, 1950
Quotes count: 12

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