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 air people
The 70s were a wonderful time to be young. I think most young people at that time were pushing the boundaries, asking all sorts of questions of society, of life and of themselves. They were very politicised. It was part of the air that we breathed.
believe thinking mind
I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.
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.
aspect commercial everywhere except genre ignored literature moved rich
The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.
book form highest journey point using worst
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.
allow difficult endeavor learn powerful strong taking
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.
camels form ends
Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.
funny-travel i-can
I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.
home ideas voice
That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.
travel decision firsts
The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.
pain attachment duty
It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring
hate hair giving
I hate hats! Hats just give you really bad hair! I had a hat sometimes. Frankly, you get burnt so much anyway, it's beside the point. And when you're walking into the western sun, no hat in the world is going to save your face and neck from being sizzled.
want fame lost
some of us just don't want to be famous ... anonymity cannot be bought for any price, once you have lost it ...
clothes skins sun
By now I was utterly deprogrammed. I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary. My skin had been baked a deep terra-cotta brown and was the constituency of harness leather. The sun no longer penetrated it. I retained my hat.