Robyn Davidson

“There are some moments in life that are like pivots; one's existence turns on them.”

“Some nomads are nomads by choice, some are nomads by necessity, and some are nomads because they are incapable of relating to any single place.”

“The two important things that I did learn were that you are as <strong class="highlight">powerfulstrong> 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 good parts of a trip are not the days when you are relaxed and enjoying yourself but the days when you are stretched and tested.”

“It is our conditioned, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.”

“I liked the solitude and the silence of the desert. It was a place where I could be myself, without any pretence.”

“Camel trips do not begin or end, they merely change form.”

“Like any journey, it's not what you carry but what you leave behind.”

“The past is a country from which we have all emigrated, and its loss is part of our common humanity.”

“To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble. It is not safe. I had learnt to use my fears as stepping stones rather than stumbling blocks.”

“Capacity for survival may be the ability to be changed by environment.”

“I had learnt that friendship was a fragile, nebulous thing, and that I was not good at it.”