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Robyn Davidson
Profession : Writer
Birth : September 6, 1950
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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 that it would be foolish to disregard or underrate. And mad to destroy.
Robyn Davidson
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.
Robyn Davidson
When 'Tracks' first came out, I was courted by Sydney Pollack. I had lunch with him, and he opened the conversation with, 'Honey, you ain't gonna like what I'm gonna do to your book.' I really liked him, but I turned him down, because - well, I was stupid. I also turned down a great deal of money.
Robyn Davidson
These days I am ruled by doubt, and that is a difficult place to write from.
Robyn Davidson
The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing.
Robyn Davidson
My thoughts can sometimes be spurred by what I read, but my reading is extremely eclectic.
Robyn Davidson
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.
Robyn Davidson
My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string.
Robyn Davidson
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.
Robyn Davidson
Some of the best conversations I've had are sitting around a camp fire.
Robyn Davidson
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.
Robyn Davidson
The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.
Robyn Davidson
Thank God for being a writer, because you do sort of find out what you think by the process of writing.
Robyn Davidson
I think people are frightened by different things, so I don't see myself as particularly courageous.
Robyn Davidson
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.
Robyn Davidson
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.
Robyn Davidson
Camels are still trained in Alice Springs for tourist jaunts and for occasional sale to Australia's zoos.
Robyn Davidson
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