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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

Robyn Davidson

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Environment

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think people are frightened by different things, so I don't see myself as particularly courageous. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "