101 Quotes by Robyn Davidson
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In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu sadhu, the pilgrims of Compostela walking past their sins, the circumambulators of the Buddhist kora, the haj.
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As we've lost this idea of pilgrimage, we've lost this idea of human beings walking for a very, very long time. It does change you.
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London sort of wore me down. I can't cope with the winters!
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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.
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My thoughts can sometimes be spurred by what I read, but my reading is extremely eclectic.
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You have to remember that I was an Australian girl of the Fifties and Sixties. For Australians at that time, it was imperative to get out of the country and discover the world.
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I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War.
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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.
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Australia's arid western region, from the town of Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean coast, is a beautiful, haunting, but largely empty land. Dominated by the harsh, almost uninhabited Great Sandy and Gibson deserts, the region is known only to Australian Aborigines, a handful of white settlers, and the few travelers who motor across it.
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