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• The song and the land are one.
• A journey is a fragment of Hell.
• I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined…
• If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of…
• Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his…
• I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.
• Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project…
• Anything was better than to be loved for one's things.
• When people start talking of man's inhumanity to man it means they haven't actually walked far enough.
• Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.
• The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of…
• Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of…

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