Wilfred Thesiger

“I pondered on this desert hospitality and, compared it with our own. I remembered other encampments where I had slept, small tents…

— Wilfred Thesiger

Hunger, thirst, heat and cold: I had tasted them in full

— Wilfred Thesiger

The harder the life, the finer the person.

— Wilfred Thesiger

“Yet I wondered fancifully if he had seen more clearly than they did, had sensed the threat which my presence implied –…

— wilfred thesiger

“I had learnt the satisfaction which comes from hardship and the pleasure which derives from abstinence; the contentment of a full belly;…

— Wilfred Thesiger

In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a…

— Wilfred Thesiger

“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

I knew instinctively that it was the very hardness of life in the desert which drew me back there - it was…

— Wilfred Thesiger

For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor to make a…

— Wilfred Thesiger