Nomads Quote by Cathleen McGuigan

America's last pioneers, urban nomads in search of wide open interior spaces

— Cathleen McGuigan

Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the…

— Wendell Berry

“Tashi says nomads keep to the routines and customs they learned from their parents and they know the basic truths: that life is full…

— Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

“And all the names of the tribes, the nomads of faith who walked in the monotone of the desert and saw brightness and faith…

— Michael Ondaatje

“There is a saying, if any stranger enquire of the first met of Maan, were it even a child, “Who is here the sheykh?”…

— Charles Montagu Doughty

“much as we like to think of ourselves as isolated nomads bumping up against each other from time to time, we are our relationships,”

— Frank Schaeffer

Finding shelter with nomads in the desert during summer was a matter of survival for me and my animals.

— Tim Cope

“In towns, the nomads remain outsiders for a while. They become a class divorced from their occupation as herders. They are called drokpa in…

— Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society. Fortunately their…

— Immanuel Kant

It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.

— Richard Leakey

The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

“I used to hunt for shooting stars. To know they had traveled billions of miles, just to burn and be over in a matter…

— M.N. Arzu

“There is no government in the world that fully respects nomads or other ‘Stone Age’ people. At best they are ignored; more usually there…

— Gabrielle Palmer

Perhaps most important for nomads was the belief in the symbiosis that existed between wolf and humans on the steppe. Wolves were an integral…

— Tim Cope

“THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ITINERANTS, drifters, hobos, restless souls. But now, in the second millennium, a new kind of wandering tribe is emerging. People…

— Jessica Bruder