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

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

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" There are worse things than being called 'the camel lady,' I suppose. "

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" 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. "

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

" I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career. "

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

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" 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. "

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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. "