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" Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore. "

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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. "

Robyn Davidson

Lost

Time

Walking

" Life's the adventure. You don't have to drop your bundle and go bush. It's about being brave within the context that you're in. "

" The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing. "

" That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People who wander are nicer to be with. Movement militates against hoarding possessions and against bigotry, because you are constantly moving across boundaries and having to negotiate with people. "

" After thirty years of being 'the camel lady,' believe me: One becomes inured to the spotlight. "

" I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War. "

" Thank God for being a writer, because you do sort of find out what you think by the process of writing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The romantic view would be that nomads are wonderful people, better than us; they care about the environment. "

Robyn Davidson

Care

Environment

" The agricultural revolution transformed the earth and changed the fate of humanity. It produced an entirely new mode of subsistence, which remains the foundation of the global economy to this day. "

" My thoughts can sometimes be spurred by what I read, but my reading is extremely eclectic. "

" As you get older, you do just get tired. "

" 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. "

" You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm. "

" Some of the best conversations I've had are sitting around a camp fire. "

" Camels are still trained in Alice Springs for tourist jaunts and for occasional sale to Australia's zoos. "

" It is always interesting being on films sets - I have done it before with other actor friends - and I just find it fascinating. I just love that collaborative film family that develops around a project. "

" I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film. "

" Camels are wonderful animals. Witty, intelligent and sensitive. "

" London sort of wore me down. I can't cope with the winters! "

" 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. "

" 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

" The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop. "

" I am very lucky: not very many writers can say they genuinely like the film of their book. However, I do. "

" You can trick yourself into doing things by doing it one step at a time and never letting yourself see the overall picture. "

" You really can expand the boundaries of your life and do risky things and prove yourself by doing them. "