17 quotes found
Writer · Australian
Australian writer
“I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.”
“Never, never have a famous partner. It's too complicated.”
“I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.”
“I don't want to be bored I don't want to be with someone I don't respect.”
“I don't want to be bored I don't want to be with someone I don't respect. ”
“The romantic view would be that nomads are wonderful people, better than us; they care about the environment.”
“The question I'm most commonly asked is "Why?" A more pertinent question might be, why is it that more people don't attempt to escape the limitations imposed upon them? If Tracks has a message at a...”
“And it was only then that I realized what I had let myself in for, and only then I realized how bloody thick I had been not to have predicted it. It would seem that the combination of elements--wom...”
“If I do depart this world out here, let it be known that I went out grinning will you, and loving it. LOVING IT.Steve, are you listening ? I FEEL GREAT. Lifes so joyous, so sad, so ephemeral, so cr...”
“I kept getting the odd sensation that I was in fact perfectly stationary, and that I was pushing the world around under my feet.”
“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.”
“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 ide...”
“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 pas...”
“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.”
“I do not mean to say that we should, or could, return to traditional nomadic economies. I do mean to say that there are systems of knowledge and grand poetical schemata derived from the mobile life...”
“The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.”
“The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing.”
