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" When I was young, I thought I wouldn't be a good mother. Now I think I would be, but I'm too long in the tooth. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision. "

" 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. "

" Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Find out what you're capable of. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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