Death Quote by T. E. Lawrence

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

— Toni Collette

“I stepped from the desert doorway with nothing except the clothes on my back and a shoulder bag filled with notebooks—blue-lined paper pads bound…

— Paul Salopek

“It is impossible for a Westerner to imagine the deadening torpor of a protected life under house arrest. Eventually, one is grateful for the…

— Phyllis Chesler

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

— Charles Williams

People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the horror of…

— Anonymous

“On that day, in jungle hamlets and mountain villages, in cacophonous slums and sprawling refugee camps, on worn concrete floors and under roofs thatched…

— Adam Fifield

We were basically strangers going off into the wilderness

— Matt Prior

I was hanging out in gers [yurts] with these Kazakh sort of Bedouins. Drank nasty-ass camel milk. The drive [from the Souther Gobi to…

— Michelle Rodriguez

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity...

— John Muir

It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even…

— Hector Hugh Munro

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity;…

— John Muir