"Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly…" — Bruce Chatwin
"Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin."
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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 Deadly Quotes
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of…
— Ambrose Bierce
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My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.
— William S. Burroughs
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The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They…
— George W. Bush
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and…
— Samuel Butler
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
— Emile M. Cioran
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And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and…
— John Abizaid
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The hardening of the attitudes is the most deadly disease on the face of the earth.
— Zig Ziglar
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Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live.…
— Sun Tzu
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We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.
— J C Ryle
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Any attempt to disturb the deadly routine of instruction is looked upon as sabotage. And the notion that the aims…
— Charles Ferguson
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The risks of transporting deadly nuclear waste, the environmental justice impacts and the long-term health effects of both these projects…
— James Cromwell
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