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" 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. "

Robyn Davidson

Foundation

Earth

Revolution

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" Some instinct - and I think it was a correct one - led me to do something difficult enough to give my life meaning. "

Robyn Davidson

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Life

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel. "

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

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

" My own memories are packed tightly away. I very rarely bring them out for viewing. "

" Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer's sensibility. "

" Of course, in India, I always said, 'Oh yes, I'm married.' "

" 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. "

" 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 arrogance of youth and that kind of ignorant confidence can get you through a whole lot of things, and then life does its stuff, and you get smashed around and beaten up. You get full of doubts, and you end up making a person out of those bits and pieces. "

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

" I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that's becoming a very precious and rare commodity. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm not one of those true writers who can't bear not to be writing. Yet it's one of the most important things in my life. "

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

" I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "