Robyn Davidson

There are worse things than being called 'the camel lady,' I suppose.

— Robyn Davidson

These days I am ruled by doubt, and that is a difficult place to write from.

— Robyn Davidson

The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.

— Robyn Davidson

Never, never have a famous partner. It's too complicated.

— Robyn Davidson

Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes

— Robyn Davidson

Camels are wonderful animals. Witty, intelligent and sensitive.

— Robyn Davidson

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

— Robyn Davidson

I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War.

— Robyn Davidson

Life's the adventure. You don't have to drop your bundle and go bush. It's about being brave within the context that you're…

— Robyn Davidson

Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude…

— Robyn Davidson

You really can expand the boundaries of your life and do risky things and prove yourself by doing them.

— Robyn Davidson

“When I die, this is the only gold that will go with me. What does one take after death? Just one's good…

— Robyn Davidson

I'm not one of those true writers who can't bear not to be writing. Yet it's one of the most important things…

— Robyn Davidson

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to…

— Robyn Davidson

As we've lost this idea of pilgrimage, we've lost this idea of human beings walking for a very, very long time. It…

— Robyn Davidson

“... It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring”

— Robyn Davidson

You have to remember that I was an Australian girl of the Fifties and Sixties. For Australians at that time, it was…

— Robyn Davidson

“I could not get used to the idea of ther being classes of people inherently inferior to oneself, to whom one could…

— Robyn Davidson

I hate hats! Hats just give you really bad hair! I had a hat sometimes. Frankly, you get burnt so much anyway,…

— Robyn Davidson

“To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble. It is not safe. I had learnt to use my…

— Robyn Davidson

Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century…

— Robyn Davidson

I do not mean to say that we should, or could, return to traditional nomadic economies. I do mean to say that…

— Robyn Davidson

The 70s were a wonderful time to be young. I think most young people at that time were pushing the boundaries, asking…

— Robyn Davidson

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the…

— Robyn Davidson

There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns—small intuitive flashes, when you know you have…

— Robyn Davidson

To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us…

— Robyn Davidson

“When God made the firs Raika, that man turned to God and said, "You're something else. You've given me two eyes, two…

— Robyn Davidson

“Why did people circle one another, consumed with either fear or envy, when all the they were fearing or envying was illusion?…

— Robyn Davidson

Australia's arid western region, from the town of Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean coast, is a beautiful, haunting, but largely empty…

— Robyn Davidson

“I liked myself this way, it was such a relief to be free of disguises an prettiness and attractiveness. Above all that…

— Robyn Davidson

“As I look back on the trip now, as I try to sort out fact from fiction, try to remember how I…

— Robyn Davidson

“And here I was at the end of my trip, with everything just as fuzzy and unreal as the beginning. It was…

— Robyn Davidson

“So I had made a decision which carried with it things that I could not articulate at the time. I had made…

— Robyn Davidson

London sort of wore me down. I can't cope with the winters!

— Robyn Davidson

I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.

— Robyn Davidson

Some of the best conversations I've had are sitting around a camp fire.

— Robyn Davidson

I don't want to be bored; I don't want to be with someone I don't respect.

— Robyn Davidson

“... I had to learn how to be cheerful in the face of adversity”

— Robyn Davidson

Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Find out what you're capable of.

— Robyn Davidson

Of course, in India, I always said, 'Oh yes, I'm married.'

— Robyn Davidson