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. - Robyn Davidson 1 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
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. - Robyn Davidson 6 Share Now -
The romantic view would be that nomads are wonderful people, better than us; they care about the environment. - Robyn Davidson 7 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
I don't want to be bored; I don't want to be with someone I don't respect. - Robyn Davidson 9 Share Now -
The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel. - Robyn Davidson 10 Share Now -
