"I climbed a path and from the top……" — 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 with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones."
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28 Quotes by Bruce Chatwin
Bruce Chatwin has 28 quotes on this site.
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The song and the land are one.
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A journey is a fragment of Hell.
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I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the…
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If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the…
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Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk…
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I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.
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Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of…
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Anything was better than to be loved for one's things.
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When people start talking of man's inhumanity to man it means they haven't actually walked far enough.
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Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our…
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The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a…
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Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the…
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More Beetle Quotes
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Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin,…
— Will Carleton
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I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.
— Ambrose Bierce
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After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God,…
— Primo Levi
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There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism…
— Richard Livingstone
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Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon…
— Richard Louv
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I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle,…
— Stefan Sagmeister
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When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered…
— Albert Einstein
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I know when I was a kid I ate a beetle. I ate a beetle because I thought it was…
— Karl Pilkington
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In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a…
— E. O. Wilson
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Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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