Robyn Davidson
Robyn Davidson
Robyn Davidsonis an Australian writer best known for her book Tracks, about her 1,700-mile trek across the deserts of west Australia using camels. Her career of travelling and writing about her travels has spanned over 30 years...
thinking track done
There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns—small intuitive flashes, when you know you have done something correct for a change, when you think you are on the right track. I watched a pale dawn streak the cliffs with Day-glo and realized this was one of them. It was a moment of pure, uncomplicated confidence—and lasted about ten seconds.
real eye world
Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes
believe long praying
I believe when you’re stuck in one spot for too long it’s best to throw a grenade where you stand, and jump…and pray.
home people kind
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
sinking-feeling feelings difficult
I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.
dog three lord
The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was dogs.
motivational strong powerful
The two 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.
struggle relaxation energy
To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.