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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Never, never have a famous partner. It's too complicated. "

" I've chosen difficult men. But then I'm sure they'd say they'd chosen a difficult woman. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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