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Some of the best conversations I've had are sitting around a camp fire.

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Life's the adventure. You don't have to drop your bundle and go bush. It's about being brave within the context that you're in.

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Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Find out what you're capable of.

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I do not mean to say that we should, or could, return to traditional nomadic economies. I do mean to say that there are systems of knowledge and grand poetical schemata derived from the mobile life that it would be foolish to disregard or underrate. And mad to destroy.

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As we've lost this idea of pilgrimage, we've lost this idea of human beings walking for a very, very long time. It does change you.

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Australia's arid western region, from the town of Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean coast, is a beautiful, haunting, but largely empty land. Dominated by the harsh, almost uninhabited Great Sandy and Gibson deserts, the region is known only to Australian Aborigines, a handful of white settlers, and the few travelers who motor across it.

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If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt.

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I don't want to be bored; I don't want to be with someone I don't respect.

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The agricultural revolution transformed the earth and changed the fate of humanity. It produced an entirely new mode of subsistence, which remains the foundation of the global economy to this day.

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That arrogance of youth and that kind of ignorant confidence can get you through a whole lot of things, and then life does its stuff, and you get smashed around and beaten up. You get full of doubts, and you end up making a person out of those bits and pieces.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Writer

Born: September 6th, 1950

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