There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
“Many Englishmen have written about camels. When I open a book and see the familiar disparagement, the well-worn humour, I realize that… — Wilfred Thesiger Copy Share Image
There is something dreamlike about the points that provide a view of the other side, but they belong not so much to… — Cesar Aira Copy Share Image
No reason to feel depressed about being depressed. A depression can be a golden opportunity to collect the pieces and build ourselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldnt want to meet. I… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
During the civil war, the Sudanese government armed the Misseriya nomads as proxy. Even though both groups had coexisted quite well prior… — Rebecca Hamilton Copy Share Image
It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland,… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image
You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction… — Doug Graham Copy Share Image
But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“I’d been trying to escape the rez for years. After all, Indian reservations were created by white men to serve as rural… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“I pondered on this desert hospitality and, compared it with our own. I remembered other encampments where I had slept, small tents… — Wilfred Thesiger Copy Share Image
The spirit of man is nomad, his blood bedouin, and love is the aboriginal tracker on the faded desert spoor of his… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“I’ve been a nomad for centuries. I don’t think I’ve ever settled down in one place for longer than a few months—until… — Jayde Scott Copy Share Image
The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads' fire crackling… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
“I had some terrific experiences in the wilderness since I wrote you last - overpowering, overwhelming," he gushed to his friend Cornel… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Modern man is a hard driven nomad without any stability, not (as the Bible has it) a wanderer or a pilgrim, but… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
My routine is similar to that of a nomad. But I crave for the comforts enjoyed by a normal girl. In fact,… — Mawra Hocane Copy Share Image
My heart lives in so many places. With so many people. But God whispers to me that I really have only one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel very alone. I am a bit of a nomad. Many people in sort of emerging countries, emerging economies, find… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“No one loves his children as much as a nomad. A wanderer admittedly does not really choose to bring children into his… — Ibrahim al-Koni Copy Share Image
I'm comfortable wherever I am, and I can be anywhere and feel comfortable after three weeks. I adapt, and I'm like a… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
