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The Songlines (1986)
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Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the "things" of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. "We give our children guns and computer games," Wendy said. "They gave their children the land."
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I slept in black tents, blue tents, skin tents, yurts of felt and windbreaks of thorns. One night, caught in a sandstorm in the Western Sahara, I understood Muhammed's dictum, 'A journey is a fragment of Hell.'
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"Music," said Arkady, "is a memory bank for finding one's way about the world."
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To lose a passport was the least of one's worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.
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Being lost in Australia gives you a lovely feeling of security.
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A Sufi manual, the Kashf-al-Mahjub, says that, towards the end of his journey, the dervish becomes the Way not the wayfarer, i.e. a place over which something is passing, not a traveller following his own free will.
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And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling.
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As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones.
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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
Bruce Chatwin
Born:
May 13, 1940
Died:
January 18, 1989
(aged 48)
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