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> [“You're saying that man "makes" his territory by naming the "things" in it?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-chatwin/you-re-saying-that-man-makes-his-territory-by-naming-the-things-in-it/)

[Bruce Chatwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-chatwin/)

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## More by Bruce Chatwin

> [Tyranny sets up its own echo-chamber.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-chatwin/tyranny-sets-up-its-own-echo-chamber/)

[Bruce Chatwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-chatwin/)

> [“I think I would be happy in that place I happen not to be, and this question of moving house is the subject of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-chatwin/i-think-i-would-be-happy-in-that-place-i-happen-not-to-be-and-this/)

[Bruce Chatwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-chatwin/)

> [And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-chatwin/and-the-formation-of-man-is-the-most-pressing-problem-facing-humanity/)

[Bruce Chatwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-chatwin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-chatwin/a-sufi-manual-the-kashf-al-mahjub-says-that-towards-the-end-of-his/)

[Bruce Chatwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-chatwin/)

> [I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined with all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-chatwin/i-pictured-a-low-timber-house-with-a-shingled-roof-caulked-against/)

[Bruce Chatwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-chatwin/)

> [“One year, he went to Paris for the week-end: but that completely upset his equilibrium.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-chatwin/one-year-he-went-to-paris-for-the-week-end-but-that-completely-upset/)

[Bruce Chatwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-chatwin/)

> [It's an old sailor's idea that every ship has a rope with one end made fast to her bows and the other held by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-chatwin/it-s-an-old-sailor-s-idea-that-every-ship-has-a-rope-with-one-end/)

[Bruce Chatwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-chatwin/)

> [“ Fino a quando, Signore, fino a quando? ... "Finché non siano devastate le città...". I Profeti confidavano in un Giorno della Restaurazione, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-chatwin/fino-a-quando-signore-fino-a-quando-finch-non-siano-devastate-le-citt/)

[Bruce Chatwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-chatwin/)

> [I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-chatwin/i-climbed-a-path-and-from-the-top-looked-up-stream-towards-chile-i/)

[Bruce Chatwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-chatwin/)

> [“The real home of man is not his house but the road. Life itself is a travel that has to be done by foot.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-chatwin/the-real-home-of-man-is-not-his-house-but-the-road-life-itself-is-a/)

[Bruce Chatwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-chatwin/)

> [“What am I doing here? Rimbaud writing home from Ethiopia”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-chatwin/what-am-i-doing-here-rimbaud-writing-home-from-ethiopia/)

[Bruce Chatwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-chatwin/)

> ['I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China, and continue my profession.' 'As sanitary engineer?' 'No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-chatwin/i-will-go-to-france-to-yugoslavia-to-china-and-continue-my-profession/)

[Bruce Chatwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-chatwin/)

> [Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-chatwin/walking-is-a-virtue-tourism-is-a-deadly-sin/)

[Bruce Chatwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-chatwin/)

> [Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his own. Since,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-chatwin/richard-lee-calculated-that-a-bushman-child-will-be-carried-a/)

[Bruce Chatwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-chatwin/)

> [“Gradually the idea for a book began to take shape. It was to be a wildly ambitious and intolerant work, a kind of 'Anatomy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-chatwin/gradually-the-idea-for-a-book-began-to-take-shape-it-was-to-be-a/)

[Bruce Chatwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-chatwin/)

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