“ The real home of man is not his house but the road. Life itself is a travel that has to be done by foot. Bruce Chatwin
“ I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical. Bruce Chatwin
“ Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence. Bruce Chatwin
“ If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why poss… Bruce Chatwin
“ Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in… Bruce Chatwin
“ I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from th… Bruce Chatwin
