Desert Places Quotes

“And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them ”
― Robyn Davidson, Desert Places

“Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes”
― Robyn Davidson, Desert Places

“... I had to learn how to be cheerful in the face of adversity”
― Robyn Davidson, Desert Places

“If I had any kind of creed in regard to living among strangers, it was this: once could criticize one's own place, indeed one had a duty to do so, but when crossing a cultural border one left behind judgements as to how life should be organized”
― Robyn Davidson, Desert Places

“... It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring”
― Robyn Davidson, Desert Places

“I could not get used to the idea of ther being classes of people inherently inferior to oneself, to whom one could be as odiously condescendign or downright brutal as one likes, yet with whom one lived as intimately as family.”
― Robyn Davidson, Desert Places

“When God made the firs Raika, that man turned to God and said, "You're something else. You've given me two eyes, two ears, two feet, two hands but only one stomach. It isn't fair. Why did you do it?" God laughed at him and answered, "You foolish Raika, don't you realize how much trouble you're going to have filling one?”
― Robyn Davidson, Desert Places