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" During these last ten thousand years, we have made massive, unprecedented changes to the environment, creating problems for ourselves that we may not be able to solve. "

Robyn Davidson

Changes

Problems

Environment

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Environment

" 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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" 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. "

" If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt. "

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" These days I am ruled by doubt, and that is a difficult place to write from. "

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" 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

Myself

Sense